Show warm ORY principles SOON BE RESULTING BENEFITS COME OME EVIDENT DENT to FARMER IFO and other tm lm packer Impart allic or of pa manti fully realized by early settler setlers bummer rain rains sup pt pl needed moisture Mo leture there M re fow w districts in the western provinces and very f few ow formers farmers in distal ct lct but what would be greatly benefited benea ted V a more careful and intel livent of dry farming principle to their operations on thy thu land these principles embody the abeen thu elements of all good cultural method and system and are re based on an experimental and clenti knowledge of the nature and requirements of the soil and the va clety ety and dependability of the climatic va pic callar tillar to ones own locality write john trumbull of bask kat chevan in Far farmers advocate ne benefits resulting from the employing dry farming methods in the liAnd ling of or western estern soils soon became blat lat to many of the early settlers in then the arld id and semi arid districts during dry seasons and dry adelic in many icesom they sought to follow these methods dt lyods in measure as far as tile mean means at their disposal would permit this ae before the fame of mr air campbell bad had reached their ears or his doctrines had been as clearly expounded as they now are while the packer and other dry farming implements neo cesary to fully carry out the system were ere lacking it was evident they fully realized their importance by tha the many and homemade home made contrivances tried trie dand and used in cultivating and packing for the control and eradication of needs eeds and the receiving and cons conserva cria moisture in the soil the cardinal principles of dry farming are no now so universally understood that little explanation ie Is required seeing inge we are dependent upon the summer rains as the greatest source of our moisture supply it is surely wisdom va is on our part to endeavor to take the greatest possible adan advantage tage of what is offered in this may ay by having a goodly portion of our land under summer tillage each year whether it bt breaking tho the virgin prairie thus preparing new now land for next seasons crop or summer fallowing land that bae already been in crop the plowing should be done well mell as early in june as possible and from fire to six inches deep we do our tre breaking aking as early in june as we me can end and do not favor faor breaking much after july Is in as for various reasons the tod lod does not rot so u well ell except in unusually wet seasons this me w e put into good and gesture with disk barrows W 3 and plank drag we me prefer the plank drag to the packer on breaking aa it fills up holes and levels it oft off better facilitating the rotting process and is to handy for hauling oft off stra stones the land intended for eummer tillage should as far as possible have had Z sou kind of surface cultivation the be previous fall in fact all stubble land should le so treated if possible as this prevents undue lose of what moisture sture may yet be in the soil by evaporation during the dry fall days and at the same time mingles the stubble roots and fiber with moist earth so that they mo monTrea re r beadily dlly rot and decay when hen turned under by the plow hitherto the disk harrow has been about the only implement N we ne e coull use at this job thle at times how ve where the grain gralli had been lodged and nd a heavy stubble haj had been left dd not do very good work in such cases it was necessary to plow or await aalt a convenient opportunity to bu bum m the stubble palatable mash rolled oats hull bull and all male a iery ery palatable mash for chickens rape ready for pasturing under favorable conditions rape ie to ready for pasturing in six w beeks from date of seeding silo increases In creasea capacity there Is nothing that Increase i the capacity of an acre so much as the silo uy BY the use of the silo you get got the tile full benefit of all the feed starting with day old chicks one way may to and that is becoming verv popular Is to purchase pui chase day old chicks and them either by the hen and natural method or artificially by the use of bouses houses constructed ted for tho the purpose with ith full in III instructions as to their operation improving by fence fences next to tiling woven wire ire f fencka ances ire e perhaps the most profitable lea im nent that can be made on the farm farn outside of the bam barn yards they make it possible to give little pig pigs the run of the farm a good cuare of the time aud and to raise raae sheep without leav ing ng part of their wool banging hanging on oil ahr deuces |