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Show THOROUGH HOEING OF SOILS Cultivation Throughout Season Increases In-creases Materially Yield of Craln and Water Required. Another masterly ami convincing nrgumiiil for a thorough cultivating of the tell lias been putillxhed by I'lOl. J. A. Wldlruio of the lull experiment Station. In u long series of experiments, in-telllgeiitly in-telllgeiitly made, Professor Wldtsno found Unit thorough hoeing or cultivation culti-vation throughout the season increased materially the Jield of grain, and Increased In-creased the linn ) 11 it t of water required per pound of dry matter produced, and that In Infertile soils the water requirements of crops could be materially ma-terially lowered by the addition of manure or commercial fertilizers. IIh believes that in every case the result Is to be attributed largely to the plant food set free by the hoclug or fallowing, or that added In the fertilizers. fer-tilizers. There are many farmers who are not in a position to Irrigate their land at once, but there are few who cannot cultivate their soli a little better bet-ter than they have been doing. No doubt there are localities where irrigation irriga-tion Is not feasible, and then again there are thousands of tenant farmers or men of limited means w ho cannot take advantage of the principle of Irrigation, Ir-rigation, it Is fortunate that nearly all such farmers are at least able to till and fertilize their fund. The practical conclusion Is, that in districts where the rainfall Is the chief consideration, It is not sufficient to store an abundance of water in the soil, but the soils themselves must Jie kept in such a condition that plants grow ing on them can produce dry matter mat-ter w ith tlio smallest possible amount of water. Under a system of dry farm rotation In which a hoed crop is perhaps grown every year, in alternation alterna-tion with wheat, a fairly large amount of available plant food will be maintained, main-tained, but at the same time the amount of stored moisture will be so near the danger limit as to jeopardize seriously the maturing crop. On the other hand, where the soil after being fall plowed and left In the rough throughout the winter Is allowed to He fallow the following summer a much larger amount of plant food Is set free and at the same time a larger amount of water Is stored In the soil. |