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Show SUMMER TLLAGE IS FAVORED During Three Years Following Ground Is In Such Shape That Very Little Lit-tle Labor Is Needed. (Bv JAMES T. MARSHALL. Colorado Agricultural College, Fort Collins, jColo.) The principal criticism associated with summer tillage is that it involves a large amount of extra labor. According Ac-cording to Mr. Philip Held, who is a successful farmer in Logan county, this criticism is more apparent than real. Concession is made that large amounts of labor are associated with Bummer tillage, but during the three years -following deep summer tillage, the ground is In such condition that comparatively little labor is needed for successful production of crops. No plowing Is done at any time until the land is plowed again for the next summer tillage. Just as soon as the first crop grown on the summer tilled land has been harvested the field is disked. The object of the disking is to destroy weeds, reduce losses from evaporation, and to leave the land In suitable tilth to receive the winter rains and snows. In the early spring, the land is disked again and is planted to some kind of cultivated crop, usually corn. Only a few cultivations are needed to keep the weeds down. After the removal re-moval of the cultivated crop, no cultural cul-tural operations are performed until the following spring, when the land Is disked and seeded to a small grain crop. . |