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Show DEEP PLOWING IS ESSENTIAL Many Farmers Do Not Understand Necessity of Preparing Good Seed Bed Packer Is Needed. Deep plowing is essential in all dry-farming dry-farming countries. The use of the subsurface packer or some other implement im-plement that will pack the furrow slice firmly down against the subsoil again, also is necessary. Too many farmers do not understand the necessity neces-sity of preparing a perfect seed bed. They are inclined to plow and harrow the ground with the single purpose in view of getting loose dirt to cover the seed. This is a mistake, for loose dirt is only an incident in the preparation prepara-tion of a seed bed and may have but little relation to moisture conservation which is, after all, the essential thing in all semiarid countries. |