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Show PLANTING DRY LAND Soil Is Harrowed and Disked Four or Five Times in Season. Whenever Seed Is Too Thick It Will Draw Sustenance Out of Ground and It Cannot Mature so as to Make a Crop. The question has been asked. Is It best to plow dry land in the fall or the spring? I say, plow in the fall every time. I don't care how dry the ground Is, it matters not. If rough, the lumps, must be broken of course, but it Is all the better. 1 leave the ground rough all winter and the snow and rains come and fertilize that soil ami pulverize it. As soon as spring conies I take a disk with a harrow behind be-hind it and lap the disk and harrow half way. We go lengthwise and as soon as that Is done turn crosswise and do the same. In a short time we see the little weeds coming up and when they can be sen nicely I put the disk to work again and ihe harrow. har-row. I sometimes harrow and disk it four or five times in the season, writes George L. Farrell in Field and Farm. We do not allow weeds to grow on the ground. We cultivate and from !lie twenty-fifth of August until the last of September, just before we sow fall wheat, we put the leveler to work and level It over so that we can see to an inch where the drill has run and we do not miss any of them. We cannot afford to miss and we sow 35 pounds to the acre and if the ground is very rich we sow a little more. But I make my tenants sign a contract In writing that they will not sow more than 40 pounds to the acre and if they sow over a bushel they have to pay for the loss In crops, because it will not produce half as much as that sown thinly. Whenever seed Is too thick in dry farming it will draw sus tenance out of the ground and it cannot can-not mature so as to make a crop. 1 will relate one circumstance to prove this. 1 used to sow rye and a Dantshman moved into the neighborhood neighbor-hood about a mile away. He came to me and wanted to know if I had some rye to sell for seed. I said, "Yes, sir, plenty of it." He said, "I want to buy 15 bushels." "All right, sir, you can have it." He said, "Will you take work for it; I have no money?" 1 said, '"Yes, sir, I would rather have work than money." "I want 15 bushels." bush-els." "How much can you sow in a day?" "Twenty acres." "All right, sir, you are just the man I want. I will give you three bushels of rye a day and board you for five days and in that five days you can sow 100 acres; that will give you 15 bushels of rye." "All right, sir, that's good pay; I'll do it." He came along and I had the rye all sacked ready to sow. He came down and said, "You have not got near enough rye here -to sow that ground." "Yes, I have." "How much are you going to sow to the acre?" "Half a bushel." He said, "You don't know nothing about raising rye." 1 said, "I don't pretend to know much about it, but that is all I want sowed." "Why," said he, "in Denmark we sow three bushels to the acre." I said, "I want you to understand we are not in Denmark now, we are out west. Can you sow a half bushel-to the acre?" "Yes, I can sow a peck if you want it." He did it and did it well. I paid him his 15 bushels and he sowed that 15 bushels on his own five acres. About the middle or latter end of April I was going past one day and he called to me to come to his house. I drove up and he said, "I want you to come over and look at my rye." I went out and looked at his rye back of the house and barn and it stood about four inches high and just as thick as it could be. I said, "That looks nice, don't it?" He said, "I am going to show you how to raise rye this season. I looked at yours and there was one spear up here and an- |