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Show FERTILITY FOLLOWS THE PLOUGH, "Inre the settlement of the -(panlsh-vmeriiun war the statesmen nf tho .Nation hive debuted the question us to whether or not the constitution should follow the II ig That is a mallei mal-lei to be decided b human jurlspru deme, but natmo has Irrevocably de. creed thut feitlllt shall follow the plow luke the sunbuist hillside soil In thla aiid tountr, turn the surface with tho plow and the seemng lifeless soil tvtn without the aid of Irrigation will take on life and the sulfate will become mvered with weeds and sun-tlowers sun-tlowers bllr Ihc soil again sow wheat or oats or re and In nine cases out of ten there will be a nop ovm though no artificial irrigation be given Huch la tho action of the atmospheie and tho gnsei tht rear upm) (he lotktd up plant food that the prltioii doors are bum asunder and tho fitments set free to unite In fnrmliur available food for the germinating seed And so it goes-the more rtouchliuc nnd the bettei the tu. tlmtlon, tho more the fcrtlllt even without the addition of anlflciil mn-nures mn-nures Not only Is this true of the surface sur-face cultivation, but he fertilli) or the availability of plant food still follows lho plow to the lower siiuta f soil Who baa not observed the cmmbllng Inert tlay when turned up b deep ploughing, yet later become fertllo soil through the acilon of (he sun und ulrT Th main Idei her In -fcrtlllt f0j. lovvi the plowv-has tie-en most dearly demonstrated by the sugur btet grow-cis grow-cis In Utah .Soil that produt i ten tons of Iweta the first aeison, ver fre-quintly fre-quintly Jidda twelve fifteen r eighteen eight-een ioiih In the next two oi threu sea-sous sea-sous simply because; Ihc Intense ml tlvuiln required to mature thc bets breaks the soil and t.ets free the elements ele-ments tn be converlel Into available I lunt food through tho agenc of the ulr mil wuter Initamia of this ure iinini n ilir ugh ut i tab an I Hie fact lio Hi point leirly lo th wisdom of not only uccp 'douching and thorough I cultivation but to sub-e lllng as well Oranted that the soil becomes nctlve and fertile onl to thc depth that moist-ure moist-ure and air are adtrlttrrt It must follow fol-low that new life and fertility Is Imparled Im-parled b Increasing the depth of saturation satu-ration and neratlon Thus If a farmer har fort acres of reasonably fertile soil undei the ordlnnr modes of cultivation, culti-vation, he ma make that fort acres equal to lift acres or even more through sub-solllng and tillage to permit per-mit the llfe-glvlng atmosphere to reach the lower strata. In other words If thc first ten inches that hive been turned over nnd over again now constitute the entire store of fertile soil that fertility may lie extended nnd thus the area of tho farm practically Increased by the use of the tub-soli low The above conildcratlon to sa nothing noth-ing of the Increased cnpiclt for water storage shoul 1 convert ever Utah farmer lo belief In rub soiling and lead him th the Inevitable conclusion that ferllllt follows the plow |