Show MUMMER TILLED CROPS dry farming had serious back set in past two years ipa tr crop could havo have been raised ad campbell bh ophell system of tilling and storing of rainfall been put into practice in the last two or thre eyears d dry ry armong has as had baff the worst in man daany Y a I 1 since tife the so se I 1 alea of unusually dry years in the ea early aly tine nineties ties however we have had bad but few afew it if any years in which a fair crop cm could not have been grown by the I 1 lC campbell ampbell system of summer tilling lone half of tho the land evory every year and storing the rainfall thereby utilizing pe he moisture of two years to Prod produce ucb ione crop writes write sV V H hamilton in the denver field and farm ending with we had a series of years of more than normal raffi rainfall fall and in som some e dry districts the f fall wheat averaged about twenty bushels the acre and this by ivery poor methods of farm farming ing then in 1908 spring rains were light and generally were vere a failure so that jibe the farmers did not harv harvest est them but plowed the land during the early summer tor for the next years crop with a good apply of moisture that all and the next spring a boomer crop was harvested in 1909 averaging twenty five tb thirty bushels and in fjone fields up to nearly fifty bushels the acre then tan in wheat aver aged aged about ten bushels bushel s ar acre with imana total otal failures ope one field of acres on gunbarrel Gun barrel hill in boulder county that was summer kulamer tilled in 1909 i leveraged lave fave raged 30 bushels the acre while lan an adjoining field was a total failure lAnot knotner An otner fier fled field across the corner was mowed for lay while still another ad joining field made nineteen bushels tend land another ten bushels then hen a flold field biot of abo about u 1 acres two milea from the first field was summer tilled in 1909 and made an average of twenty six busa bushels ls white while the average of the whole district was only about ten bush I 1 els ahls that the short crops of 1910 were not I 1 so much the fault of the climate a as s to the slack n of farming now that we have had a liberal of snow this winter and spring the dry farmer should get bu busy sy and double dials all land not already in crops just as soon as the ground is ary ar enough to work disking will put the surface I 1 in b condition so that the rains will be more readily absorbed and fi ID dease case the weather ef should be i dry and windy it wilf wiil prevent t evaporation last s spring p ring I 1 disked part afa field in march then early in iii hayw wo listed the field in corn the part that was disked was wag in fine condition with moisture fourteen inches deep while the part vidt disked was so dry and hardy hard we could hardly list it at all the disked part made good growth with a small ear on nearly every stalk while that not disked no never got more than a foot high the season long every one farming on the sem semiarid semi 1 arid plains where the average precipitation is less than eighteen inches should carefully summer till apart part of their land every year beoda beca iise ge ordinary metho 9 or or the way they farm back east will fall about on one e year lif two i what 19 s meant by summer tilling I 1 Is s to disk after the binder or av abreast least remove move 1 edlio the grain as boon soon as possible then double disk which should be done again in t the be spring as soon as the frost Is out of d the ground and it s dry enough to lo work but do not disk too deep not more than three inches then plow during juno june or early ju july 1 y not less than six inches nor more than eight using the packer every halt half day after the plow and the harrow every night the subsurface packer should bo be used while the soll Is moist or it will not pack the under part of the fur ro row w slice sufficiently to make good connection with the subsoil the reason for or not plowing tin irrigated landi landa deep or than eight inches Is that th lii orde to obtain good results the plowed part must havi good connection with t the he subsoil Bub soll for no packer yet devised win will firm the under part sufficiently the air spaces inthe in the plowed soil will break the capillary attraction froni from belbow so that no matter how much moisture Is stored it will bo be of no use to the growing crop un unless ae os there should corns me a soaking rain that would settle all the plowed part exclude the surplus air and restore connected connect id for wath the subsoil we must do with the subsurface dubs packer what nature often fatla falls to do in the arid region in simmer summer tilling do not plow too sarly early as it would then be more difficult to kp keep the weeds down |