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Show VALUE OF PLOWING IN FALL Should Be Done In Order to Permit Winter Precipitation to Enter Soils Easily and Effectively. It Is generally conceded that in order or-der to permit the winter precipitation to enter the soils easily and effectively, the soil should he plowed In the fall and left In a rough state throughout the winter. To prevent a loss of this storage moisture, when the warm sunshine sun-shine of spring and summer appears, the fall plowed soil should bo harrowed harrow-ed In early spring, and by means of repeated re-peated harrow Inga a dry earth mulch should bv. kept on the surface. On the overwhelming majority of ,western soils the only right time for plowing Is In the fall. On an equally large proportion of western soils the best ' jif prevptitlng evaporation from "f, thorough cultivation. I lie farm on which the I iKirted In this bulletin I f was tilled In the best I Vo&iw."h-.."Jor. Tbe top soil win-loose win-loose and permitted the ready entrance en-trance of water. The field was usually usual-ly plowed In the fall. Luring two sea- . sons only It was possible to secure comparative data dealing with fall versus spring plowing. While the difference dif-ference In both seasons was small, In both cases It was In favor of tbe fall-plowed fall-plowed soli. Some workers In this field bav noted the small Increase In the percentage per-centage of soil moisture to certain, depths resulting from fall plowing, and have hastily concluded that fall plowing bas little value In conserving the natural precipitation. In view of the law of the approximate constancy of the roll moisture In tbe spring such views may be revised. Fall plowing; undoub'edly conserves the winter precipitation. I'tah Hulk-tin No. 104. |
