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Show FALL PLOWING ON DRY FARM Fourteen Inch Gang Plow Should Avsrags Five Acres Dally or 130 Acres In Month. tfr W. P PORTKH, Superintendent North Dakota Uemonatratlun Ksrnv) Pall plowing should be done aa early aa possible, as more wend seeds re started In early plowing, the stubble stub-ble decays hotter and more nitrates are formed and other plant food Is I liberated In larger quantities. Early fall plowing can be plowed deepei than late fall plowing without so much soli at once from below. Early barley atubble can be plowed to good advantage before the general wheal harvest A 14 Inch gang plow trivet lug 18 miles a day will plow flv acres. In a week It would turn ovei fO acres of land. If there Is any delay de-lay in threshing or stacking the grain due to wet weather or high winds, the gang plow should be started, even If the shocks are on the fields. They can be set over on the plowed land with but little difficulty by the opera-tor opera-tor of the plow, rrom 7S to 118 shocks will have to be set over a day or from four to seven shocks pef mile the plow travels. A shock can readily be set over In from 0 to fl seconds, thus taking from four to ten minutes per mile. The horses should have this much time to rest, so there is practically no lost time In plowing land before the shocks are removed It Is simply an Inconvenience for the operator of the plow, as he has to stop frequently and set a grain shock over on the plowed land. Sot the gang plows going as early aa you can and keep them going every day you possibly pos-sibly can until .the fall plowing Is done. A 14 Inch gang plow should average flve acres a day, or 130 acres a month. On lands that are not Inclined In-clined to drift or pack down bard a section of a barrow can be hauled after aft-er each plow to very good advantage. |
