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Show SAVE SOIL MOISTURE There Is Nothing Difficult or Mysterious Mys-terious About It. In Dry Season It Mass Dlffarenc Betwten a Crop and No Crop Many Benefit of Deep Furrow Slice. (Py W. C. PAI.MKTl, North Dakota Agricultural Ag-ricultural Colloae.) Enough Is now known of the principle prin-ciple of soli molature conservation that each one can be In possession of the secret. Then again there la nothing noth-ing difficult of mysterious about It. It Is a common knowledge, that any thing wet dries on being exposed to the air. The housewife make use of thl principle In banging out the clothe to dry. It la well known that oil move up through a wick, and that If the wick I cut the oil cannot pas over the gup-Water gup-Water will act the same a the oil and it move through the soil In the aame way that It doe through the wick. Keep In mind that wet aoll exposed to the air will give up It moisture to the air; that water move from the wetter portion to the drier aoll If the oil I compacted, which condition compare to tho lamp wick; a looae aoll compares to the lamp wick that I cut and o the moisture cannot move through It. The plant need the moisture In the furrow slice a that I where It doe most of It feeding. Notice the plant growing In the dead furrow. It ba Its root In the subsoil. The moisture condition ahould be better there than In the surface soil yet the plant doe not do so well, and due to a lack of available plant food. Thl moan that a deep furrow alice will offer more feeding room for the roota than ft (hallow one. The furrow slice ahould be packed firm against the bottom so a to furnish the mean for the mola-ture mola-ture to pa from the ub aoll to the aurface aoll a the plant need It. To keep the moisture from passing to the surface and evaporating, the aurface oil should be kept loose, a condition known aa the aoll mulch. Another reason for deep plowing la to furnish t large reservoir to take up the rain fall readily. Shallow plowing :annot take In rain aa faat nor a much of It a deep plowing The proof of the value of deep plowing la brought out by the fact that It produce larger yield. The soli mulch can be produced by the common barrow. Crop are harrowed har-rowed after they are up, grain ran be harrowed till five or alx Inches high, and some are trying to harrow till It heads out And with good result. The harrowing of grain or corn ahould Wily be done on bright sunny dayaand , j not before the aun has been up three ' jjrr four hour. The plant when H nd In the morning and on cloudy day 1 more crisp and break up easier. The mulch should be made a soon b the land Is plowed. If It Is not, considerable con-siderable evaporation will take place at once. In plowing do not leave the field before harrowing w hat was plowed plow-ed that half day. A plow attachment la now on the market that loosen up the surface at the same time the plowing I done. Another way la to bitch au extra horse to a section of harrow when plowing; this does It all at one operation, too. In the case of spring plowing It may be necessary to pack It ao as to get the bottom of the furrow compact. Fall plowing should bo harrowed as soon a possible In the spring a moisture will escape- fust from the surface that haa been compacted during the winter. win-ter. I Humu adds greatly to moisture ; holding capacity of the soil, acting like a sponge or blotting paper The plow-i plow-i ing under of green crops or weed i when green adds humu. Applying j manure la one of the bist way of ad 1 ding It. |