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Show DRY FARM LAND THAT BLOWS Most Difficult Problem Perhaps Best Solved by Heavy Listing Crosswise to Prevailing Winds. Much of the very best dry farming tand Is of such a loose nature that II blows badly Theoretically, clays hol.l more moisture than sands and aaudj loam, but the difficulty of malntalnlnn a soil mulch allows so much escape ol water by evaporation that this cbarac teristlc Is largely offset. How to stop blowing has been th most difficult problem, and Is perhapi best solved by heaving listing cross mi to the prevailing winds. Hert again theory and fact conflict, for It Ii evident that there Is more surface ex powd for evaporation on listed thar flat ground and not only that, hut th bottom of the furrow has no soil mulct until the furrows crumble souiewiat The fact, however, that the furtowi catch ti e drifting snows must be tak en Into crm-Iteration, and In practln there will u'ia!!y m a greater mols ture content In spring In furro -y ground than that which Is left level besides which It holds the better the fln soil which drifts away so essily 8and ceatlnually breaks down unde cultivation and weathering, making I aood soil of It If It can be be retained |