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Show PLOW WHEAT GROUND EARLY Buries Hessian Fly and Gives Soil Time to Become Moist'and Compact Com-pact Underneath. Early plowing of wheat is beneficial in more ways than one. Not only does It bury the Hessian fly, but it also gives time for the plowed soil to become be-come moist and compact underneath. Such a condition of the soil is difficult to secure if plowing is put off until September. Keeping down the weeds also conserves soil moisture and plant foods. From five to seven hundred tons of water are necessary to produce pro-duce a ton of dry weeds and moist of this may be saved for the wheat crop. Plant food is made available more rapidly when early plowing is practiced, prac-ticed, due to the better air circulation. If the weeds are kept down, this food U stored up and ready to give the wheat a quick, vigorous start when seeding time comes. If, on the other hand, the weeds are allowed to grow, they will draw heavily on this plant food and while they will eventually die und decay, restoring It to the soil, the wheat will not do well, for if the wheat crop waits until the weeds decay, de-cay, the danger from winterkilling will be greatly Increased. This difference differ-ence in growth limy make the difference differ-ence between winterkilling and good spring condition. |