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Show PAY ATTENTION TO DETAILS Fields Must be Handled Differently During Very Dry Seasons Than When Rain la Plentiful. Those sections that have actually Buffered from a tmrplus of water, union un-ion the farms were properly under-drained, under-drained, will have an experience during du-ring the dry seasons that will lead Ihem to pay attention to the details of what is called dry farming. Let no one be unduly fearful because of the results which will follow from I he dry seasons. As we bave noted above, these aeaaons are favorable to the doing of some very Important things. They are particularly good In that tho grain which we grow will bo free from rust and the atraw will be aa bright as can be desired, but we muKt handle our fields differently dif-ferently during t lie He aeaaona than during those where we bave abundant abun-dant and sometimes more than abundant abun-dant rains. Hrlcfly we will atate that we will plow with much care, says the Dakoto Farmer. We will plow aa early as possible after harvest or else uae a packer so as to establish a reasonable rea-sonable degree of solidity In the plowed field. We will not bow broadcast broad-cast but uae a drill and In some cases It will bo very desirable to use some form of a press drill. We will drag the grain as well as the corn. We will drag the corn longer than we do the grain fields because the grain will sooner cover the ground by its growth and so shading it will prevent the escape es-cape of moisture. The dryer the season sea-son the more thoroughly we will cultivate culti-vate this corn with the surface cultivator culti-vator and continue that cultivation later than ordinarily. We can use a single horse cultivator with surface blades and while the dust will rise and the ground will appear to be like uh(i heaps, still beneath that looseness loose-ness of dry earth there will be maintained main-tained a reasonable degree of that moisture that is absolutely essential to the growth of the corn plant. Let us take comfort that under these dry farming conditions and dry weather periods, we will not have rust on our potatoes but aome of the best crops of this kind will be grown during these seasons. We can have a reaaonable degree of size In the potato, po-tato, but better than all this we will have the high quality of potato that Is rarely ever grown when the seasons sea-sons of abundant rains maintain. |