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Show SOIL READY FOR IRRIGATION Farmer Should See That Hie Field la Smooth on Surface and Level All Ridges and Hollow. illy K. 11 Hot'SIC. rol.ira.lo At rlcolturwl t'ollta. The thing of flrat Importance I to are to It that the high spots tn the Bold are removed and that the lo t apota are filled; In other word, he should see that the surfare of bis field Is smooth, and here Is where the or dlnary farmer falls down. After plow-lug plow-lug ani harrowing his fluid he perhaps per-haps runs a drag over It, and then seeds It. leaving ridge. and hollow, hole;, and knolls. When he Irrigate the field It Is Decennary for him to aim out drown the low spots In order to wet the high one. Water will often be found from one to two feet dot p In places In the field. If, when the plowing and harrowing are completed, tbe farmer would take a scraper and take down the knolls and fill up the depresHlons with the dirt thus removed, In the course of a year or two he would change the field from one bard to Irrigate to one ex-ceedlngly ex-ceedlngly easy for irrigation. He would find that practically one-half the amount of water that he was com-Polled com-Polled to use In (he flrat place ts ample am-ple after the fleld has been smoothed In this way. More than this, be will field that his crops yield better, for when an excess of water Is applied to the low apota, the crop at these places In the field is always Injured. It Is not an exaggeration to s'.y that as ii in eh damage to the crop Is done by forcing the water up to the high spots aa would be done by allowing these high spots to suffer from ' lack of wuter. A word of advice now, for the present pres-ent season will soon bo up us. As you Irrigate your fields thl spring and summer stake the high bikHs, driving the stakes down s,"1""1 they will not Interfere with harvesting, nr.d mark on these stakes about how mu:h too high the land la at that poUt; then after the crop Is harvested In the fall see to It that these high spot are removed, and, after plowing, smooth the surface sur-face with great care. |
