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Show DEEP FALL PLOWING IS BEST Not Only Necessity for Sugar Beets, but Might Be Worked to Advantage Advant-age With All Other Crops. All our best farmers have long sine come to a conciuaJon us to the necessity neces-sity of deep full plowing for sugar beets and the rule might be worked for all the other crops and we would still bo ahead of the game. When beets are to go In on spud land on which the potuto digger ha done Its awful work there Is no necessity for plowing, but on other land a depth of six or tight Indies should be the minimum mini-mum and subaolling from four to six Inches below that will be found ad-vantngeoua, ad-vantngeoua, and this country has never yet bought enough subsoil plows nor are they used us much a they were 20 years ago. flowing around the Held should be avoided. Where land la arranged for the furrow method of irrlgi lou and the ordinary plow used the d.rcctlon should be only with the sloie. 'flowing at right angle to the Hlupo will leave the dead and back furrows In the Held In such position that even If smoothed over by cultivation culti-vation they will prevent a uniform flow of water through the furrow. This plowing should be left In the rough so that the soli may be well aerated and be able to catch and retain re-tain enow or ruin without drifting or run off. On land which Is checked the direction of the plowing 1 not so essential es-sential except a it affect permanent ditches. Field that have been winter Irrigated must be, thoroughly cultivated culti-vated after wateriug so a to retain the moisture applied, for the spring winds levy a great tax on evaporation and we are looking for good many hard blow this winter. The corru-gator corru-gator Is a good thing, but alas, no few of us have corrugators and the iron foundries are hot turning them out when It would be so simple to do bo. |