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Show .FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. i 'USELUL HINTd FOR WINTER READINC3. lliosUjot of Plonlni I'nJcr Mibbla Instiail of Ilarnlnj It-llon to Kill the t'ttttr- troas Il;! Ant jUrlcilturil and Mogieliold Kottl. 1'Ioit It Under. Tho fnrmor who makes It a rulo to rtilto up und burn nil tho trnsh in tho cultivated Uoldo will usually Und thai In u Bhort timo tho Innd will becomo burd to plow und will roqulro more work to got It into a good condition for planting. Ilccauso In burning off wheat or oat stuhblo or in raking mid burning tho corn stnlks, tho soil will seem looso nnd frlablo' In plowing Im-' modlntoly uftor, muny aro led to bo-liovo bo-liovo that burning In this wny is bono-fielal. bono-fielal. Juut how long tho plan of burning off each year to oloan up tho Holds enn bo followed boforo tho effect will bo noticed, dopends largely upon tho amount of vegotablo mattor in the soil. Thoro Is not n vory largo amount of manurlal valuo contained in dry stalks, woods or trash, so tn plowing them under tho effects is mechanical rather than chemical. It Is for tho offeut upon tho soil rather than tho amount of plmt food that they contain, thnt thny should bo plowed undor rather than bo burned. Ouo of tho advantages of lall plowing is that all tho trash 'on the land can bo plowod undor, and in doing this tho soil will bo kopt looso and moro frlublo. If turnod undor In tho fall in good Benson, a largo portion of It will rot during tho wlntor. so thnt thoy will not interfere with tno preparation pre-paration nnd cultivation of tho crops. With cultivated crops of nny kind trash or coarso manuro.If on or near tho surfaeo, will intorforo considerably consider-ably with tho cultivation; and for this reason they should bo turnod Into tho soil sulUciently curly to glvo thom plenty of tltao to rot boforo it Is nocos-aary nocos-aary to cultivate unless cultivation is so shallow as not to disturb thorn aftor plowing under. Instead of being an itom to clean up und burn nil of tho trash possible In order to havo cloan land, tho bolter plan is to manage tho plowing ns far as possible so us to turn undor In such a manner lis to do-rive do-rive tho largost amount of benefit and at tho snmo time lutorfore tho least In thd wurlc nccossury with tho crops. When tho plau has boon followed fol-lowed of burning up ovorythlnc until tho character of tho soil bos changod, In many cases It will bo ndvlsnblo to uso straw or stalks as lltt-jr iu tho sheds, Btablos or feed lots and thou haul out nnd apply to tho lnnd, plow-I plow-I tic under as soon ns posslblo In order to supply or put back vegotablo matter, mat-ter, and In this way aid to looson tho soil. If it cannot bo dono'ln tho fall, in many cases It can bo dono during tho wlntor und while oarllor results could bo securod by applying in thu fall nnd plowing undor, consldor.iblo bonoftt can bo derived If dono In tho wlntor, plowing undor whenever tho oil will ndmlt. |