Show KEEPING MOISTURE IN SOIL rye to turn under in spring pays on an land inclined to pack and vetch aids humus disk the stubbles kill the vices and prevent cap evaporation oration of soil mol moisture sture ft it will mill often pay to sow from forty to sixty pounds of rye to turn under in spring especially on land inclined to pack and puddle winter retell added to the rye will mill sake make more humus and nitrogen but before laying too much of this eapen uve seed it Is better to use a couple f pounds to the acre as the ground may need inoculation or it you think FOU may use vetch next year buy a pound or to and see how it thrives vetch has a place in our rotations especially where it ia is desired to tako take repeated silage crops from the same and m with ith a short haul to the silo land that grows re or vetch as a winter is best irrigated in tpring pring before plowing as they draw heavily on soil moisture do not so to surface indications dig the re roots go deep and mat making i good pliable light sod from their it Is not necessary to wait for or a very heavy top grou growth th nor indeed desirable unless for late crops t f fallowing till late summer in which ase the land will have tinie time to settle |