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Show Advice to Dry Farmers Hon. George L. Farrell Tells Farmers How To Secure Good Crops Next Year. Now that threshing Is over and our fall grain is In the ground, this is an opportuno time to do your fall plowing. plow-ing. All land that farmers expect to summer fallow should be plowed this fall by all means, all the stubble turned turn-ed under to less than eight Inches deep, and the ground left rough for the frost and snows to fertilize through the coming Milter. Many farmers leave their plowing for the summer fallow until spring when the weeds are six Inches high, and then plow them under In place of manure. This is a mistaken idea and should be avoided. All farmers should see to It that no weeds arc allowed to grow and go to seed upon their farms, for the reason that one good healthy sun Mower will extract more fertility from the soil than three strong loots of grain, and therefore weeds of every name and kind should bo eradicated, livery precaution should be used to cleanse your farm from weeds and one sure way to do this Is to plow your stubble lauds In the fall not less than eight or ten Inches deep; then next spring, Just as soon as the ground is dry enough to work without clogging, hitch your horses onto one of the Daniclscn six disc plows, and plow crosswise, ten acres per day, four Inch deep; then harrow the ground lengthwise. length-wise. You will notice that the Daniclscn six disc gang plow turns the ground all one way, and when you get through plowing your Holds the ground Is all turned over and not a single stieak left, as by other discs, for weeds to start All funnci should take every lueca'utlon to see that all weeds are exterminated; don't let them have room on jour farms It is highly necessary, nec-essary, also, that your soils should be Ted with plenty of plant food. If It Is not present in abundance it should be supplied in the manner that is most economical and prolitable, and that which Is removed in crops should be replaced so far as practicable and prolitable, pro-litable, either by leturning it In farm manure, or by plowing under green manure, corn stalks, straw, wheat stubble or other coarse pioducts. Improve The Soil. The farmer whose farm practice Includes In-cludes these two points: Plenty of plant food stored In the soil, and plenty, of decaying organic matter to llbeiate plant food for the crod needs, will have in operation a system of agriculture ag-riculture which Is very neeessmy and permanent. The one point Is no more Important or essential than the other. The man who tries to maintain main-tain the fertility of his soil, and who hopes to continue to grow large and prolitable grain crops without the use of legume crops or plowing under farm manures or coarse products, but who uses high priced soluble manufactured commercial fertilizers, Is unwise, and ultimately his land will piobably follow fol-low in the history of lands which has been practicably ruined by such practice prac-tice In the Kastern States. One very Important Item In Improving Improv-ing the soil on worn out land Is to sow a crop of cow peas, about one and a half bushels per acre, and plow them under while green, for the nitrogen and organic matter -which tiny contain con-tain and add to the soil. Another Plan. Another good plan to Improve worn out soil Is to plow the land eight or ten Inches deep in the fall and leave it rough throughout the winter for the frost and snows to fertilize the soil: then as soon as the ground Is tit to work, plow It with a Danlelsen six disc gang not more than four Inches deep crosswise, hanow lengthwise, and level It oil nice and smooth. Then sow from eight to ten pounds of alfalfa al-falfa seed per acre, early in April, and let It stand for three or four years. 'iTen plow It up In the spring and work It over good and often through the, summer, sow from thlrty-llvo to not more than forty pounds of good, clean wheat seed per aero not later than September Kith, and watch It grow and yield to to fio bushels to the aero. 'Hut" says onefavmci, "suppose the weeds start to grow In tho sprlngV" You must watch for that and If snch be the case, get your harrow and tip the teeth well back and harrow the wheat both wajs and kill the young weeds and strengthen tho wheat very materially by so doing. Now, all you dry farmers go to work and plow under all the wheat and stubble lands you possibly can this fall note down tho results In your farm notebook, and prove to your entire satisfaction the great benefits arising from fall plowing, Instead of letting your-stubbltt lands remain until the weeds are six to eight inches high before be-fore you commence your p!owlngfor summer fallow. The foregoing items are written for the benclltof all dry farmers, as well' as those farmers who irrigate, free of charge, but 1 advise farmers who wish to learn and have a desire to Improve Im-prove their farms and their old methods meth-ods of farming to subscribe for the papers wherein farm topics are published pub-lished from time to time, and thereby benefit themselves and their sons who. labor on the farm. Gi:oii(ik L. l'',itHi:u,, President of the Cache Valley farmers Afsoclatlon. Smithtlcld. Utah. |