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Show WINDS TAKE AWAY MOISTURE One Reason Why Crops Do So Well After Corn Forest Condition , Affords Ample Protection. Winds evaporate mob lure faslel than the sun. We Icllcw (his Is one of the reasons why com land shows such a Kiirpri.slng amount of moisture when compared with summer fallow, says the Homestead. Many cannot understand why crops do ko well after corn; and some pretty bright authorities authori-ties question the statement that well tilled corn land will t-how as nun h, somi times more, moisture than well handled summer fallow ; reasoning that as corn itstdf takes so much moisture It Is simply impossible. The early cultivation of the corn, before the ground Is shaded by It, tends to hold the moisture, and as soon as the ground is shaded by the mn jukI a protected fore-st condition established, neither the wind or sun can get at It to any extent; and If the surface tillage Is continued, all moist-uro moist-uro falling Is retained, and that already al-ready In the soil cannot escape. We know that trees take even more moisture moist-ure than corn, and fctlll when tho roadway road-way through a forest, or the mead ows, pastures or p'nltis adjoining one are baked with drought many Inches below the surface, If the leaves are scratched back from the shaded wind protected soil In the forest. It will always al-ways be found moist. We believe It Is this forest condition as wi ll as. If not more than, the dust mulch that makes well-cared for corn land 0 moist the following season. If only the winds would stop blowing across our treeless plains, our moisture would cot leave them so fast. Asparagus Beds. Next to the pieplant is a good place for the asparagus bed. four rows .1 feet apart and 2." feet long. Then tin j Ish tho asparagus strip with four rows of strawberries. j |