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Show DISKING FALL STUBBLE fSanure Spreader Distributes Fertilizer in Fine Form. Work of Farmer Should Not Be Discontinued Dis-continued Until Furrow Has Been . Compacted So That Moisture ' Will Come Up to the Seed. The use of manure was condemned tiere on the plains because of the fact that the crop dried out quicker over a cake that had been plowed under than It did elsewhere in the field. This is the reason why the crop dries out more quickly when a heavy layer of stubble has been plowed under and the seed sown before the furrow slice ia connected with the subsoil. The manure spreader has largely eliminated eliminat-ed the prejudice that once existed against tho use of manure, writes Ralph Hill in Denver Field and Farm. It distributes the material in fine form and no cakes are left to plow under and cut off the movement of the moisture mois-ture toward the roots of the plants. Stubble, weeds, manure or anything' of that character should be disked into the soil mixed with it before it is turned under. By cross disking a field ahead of the plow all of this humus can be properly prop-erly Incorporated with the soil and the ground put in such condition that it will much more readily connect with the bottom of the furrow. The most important place to use the disk Is ahead of the plow and I say this regardless re-gardless of the amount of rainfall we can depend upon. When the soil thus turned under is thoroughly pulverized it Is not a difficult matter to compact it so that moisture will come into it from below within a very short time. This compacting can be done by a corrugator, a subsurface packer or a weighted-down disk. The use of these implements should not be limited, nor the work discontinued discon-tinued until thorough connection has fceen made between the furrow slice and the soil below and the furrow itself it-self compacted so that moisture will rise to seed. It is risky in this arid regi.on to plant valuable seed in dry soiL It may rain in a few days and it may not rain for weeks. It is the business of the dry farmer and of every ev-ery other farmer, to so till his soil that they can always be planted where moisture will be furnished by capillarity capil-larity whether it rains or not. If the preceding crop of corn, spuds or beets was thoroughly cultivated through the entire season and the small grain planted before the moisture mois-ture contained in the ground had escaped es-caped by evaporation, there is always moisture enough to germinate the succeeding suc-ceeding crop and this is particularly the case the present year in which we tiave so much moisture on the plains. The cultivation of a crop prevents the loss of a large quantity of moisture which would otherwise evaporate from the surface. It furthermore compacts the soil and leaves it in such condition that moisture moves upward through it by capillarity and thus supplies the sown grain. |