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Show I Prepare for Fall Ploughing. (Desorot Farmer.) ( Tho usual arguments in favor of 1 fall ploughing of laud are to tbo 1 olt'oot that tho soil becomes "weath er od" and that tbo work dono a that tlmo is just so much out of tho way in tho spring, whon everything is fX rashlng on tbo farm. Theeo nro - cogent jroasons for ploughing tbo ground-in tho fall," and thero la espeoial strongth in tbo argument of ' I wonthoring or aeration of tho soil. I It ia very largely from tho action of tho ntmosphoro that uitriUoatiou taken K. placo in tbo soil, and tho oloments 1' nro formed into nvailablo plant food. E . It naturally follows thon that tho i' more open tho surface and greater tho n portion of soil that oomos iu contact I with tho ntmosphoro, tho more nvnll- ' ablo plaut food that soil contains. I Ilowovor, in nn irrigated country ' thero is nn nddltional aud most potont II nrgumont for fall ploughing, and that It' is tbo vastly greater amount of water gathered aud retained by tho ground whon broken up. Every former , knows that stubblo laud, or even !' ground that may bnvo been in a oul- ' tivatod crop, becomes very compact i and hard nftor tho crop is romovod. V As a oonsoquonoo n greater proportion n of tho storm wntor of tho winter . montbB runs off to tbo lower lands. Quito dllferout is tho case whon tho giound is rough and loosened by nlmiL'tiincr. If nlauahiug bo dono ,' ulong tho hlllsldo, or at right angles I to tho slope, as it should bo, each " furrow forma a sort of dam that holds . , :; tho storm wator until it soaks into tho ground. Again, tho rough sur- I fnoo does not bako and oraok opou to ! pormit of tho soil moisturo osunplng into tho ntmosphoro. Without oxaot moasuroinont it would bo impossible to stnte tho amount of water por acre that is lost by wasto in running off during tho winter, but it is evident i thnt huudrods of tons of wator aro lost enoh soason to ovory farmor who pormits his land to romaiu in Btubbl all wintor, or who follows thoslovon- ly custom of ploughing up and down tho hill aud taking u channel of each furrow and main cuual of oaoh dead furrow for carrying oh" the water thnt t falls durlug tho full aud wintor months. |