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Show PLAN FOR SAVING RAINFALL Plow the Field a Soon aa Crop Hat Been Harvested and Follow This Up With Drag. Molxlura eon Nerval Ion I not a sun cure lor erop failure. Kvery farmer thoiiKh, knows what three or foul Inches of additional rain during a di) KeiiMou will do, and when It la reall.ed Unit It Is iioshIIiIh and feitHllile to con ' serve inolKture to that extent it heglm - to look aa though the iiiivIiik of inols lure from ono year to another wouli ' help Home In rase of khort rainfall Three or four Inches of ruin ritrrte over from one season to the nex ' means three or four hundred totia o water an acre In the subsoil watc 1 enough to curry a growing fro through any ordinary dry weather. I la posHlble to carry even more tha ' thla from one year to another, say A. H. I'ldlgb, assistant professor t " crops at the Kansas agricultural co ' lege. How can the rainfall be saved 1 now the field aa soon as the crop ha ' been harvested. If It Is spring or sure 1 mer, follow the plow with a drs 1 The rains will soak Into the aoll In 1 stead of running off tha surface o evaporating. Kail plowing should no be dragged, as there la danger of tin ' soli either packing or becoming do and blowing. The extra expense o ' following such a plan ought not U cost more than a dollar an acre ai ' most. Many places It could ha doix at a much smaller cost. It pays bin 1 Interest on the Investment even at the higher figure. |