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Show GOOD PLOWING REQUIRES SKILL Soil Conditions Must be Studied Before Risht Kind or- Depth. Can be Employed with. Success. (By R. B. RUSHING.) I was in conversation with a neighbor neigh-bor just a short time ago and he asked me the question: "WTiat is good plowing, and how should it be done in the spring to give best results?" re-sults?" I replied: "Good plowing consists in turning and setting the soil into nice, neat, even, clean, round, straight furrows so that the upper soil will be brought up as much as possible and exposed to the sun and atmosphere." What do I mean by clean furrows? Having the weeds, stubble and grass all turned under and cutting a clean landslide. Even? Having the furrows fur-rows all the same height. KOUUQ : so mai lae lurrows wu 6how a little crease between them, and unless you plow straight your furrows fur-rows will not be even. Some may think that a certain iepth and width are necessary in good plowing. It is. Regulate the width by depth, but there are so many different dif-ferent shaped mold boards which throw the soil in different positions, that some would cut wide furrows, and others narrow. Not only this, but some soils need shallow plowing in order to produce the best results, while others need deep plowing. I plow a certain depth and width and get good results, but this might hot apply to all farms. You might try the same width and depth with poor results. I have found that even on the same farm there are sometimes different fields that will give better results with different depths of plowing, and, therefore, it becomes necessary to make it a study and know what is Deeded. |
