OCR Text |
Show FALLPLOWING ON DRY FARM Fourteen-lnch Gang Plow Should Average Five Acres Dally or 130 Acres In Month. (By W. R rOHTET?. Superintendent North Dakota I ipnionslratlon Farm.) Fall plowing should be done as early as possible, as more weed seeds are started In early plowing, the stubble stub-ble decays better and more nitrates are formed and other plant food is liberated in larger quantities. Early fall plowing can be plowed deeper than late fall plowing without sc much soil at once from below. Earl barley Ftubhle can he plowed to good advantage before the general wheat harvest. A 14-inch gang plow traveling travel-ing IS miles a day will plow five acres In a week it would turn ovei j .10 acres of land. If there is any de I lay in threshing or stacking the grain i d:ie to wet weather or high winds ! the gang plow should be started, ever if the shocks are on the fields. They can be set over on the plowed land with but little difficulty by the opera '.or of the plow. From 75 to 12E shocks will have to be set over a day or from four to seven shocks pet mile the plow travels. A shock car readily be set over in from 60 to 9t seconds, thus taking from four to ter minutes per mile. The horses should have this much time to rest, so there is practically no lost time in plowing land before the shocks are removed-it removed-it Is simply an Inconvenience for the operator of the plow, as he has tc stop frequently and set a grain shock over on the plowed land. Set the gane plows going as early as you can and keep them going every day you pos sibly can until the fall plowing Is done. A 14-lnch gang plow should average five acres a day, or 130 acres a month. On lands that are not In clined to drift or pack down hard a section of a harrow can be hauled aft er each plow 10 very good advantage |