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Show GET AFTER MOISTURE EARLY Every Move Mads Thla Spring Should Be With Idea That No Rain Would Fall Till July. Every move made with the aoll this spring, whether In field or garden, should be done with the same carefulness care-fulness that would be exercised If we knew there would not be another drop of rain till July. If this is done, whether we have a moist or a very dry growing aeaaon, we shall have a good garden and fair crops. Iiy harrowing closely after every particle of spring plowing or disking, by passing a heavy roller over all too loose soils and following with a fine barrow, thla can be done on a large and surely paying scale. In the garden do the same, and In addition, after any shower and once ' or twice a week, shower or no show- ' pr, pass an Iron or steel rake over the slightly hardened surface between the rowa and hills close up to the planta. Should ample moisture come 1 and the chances are about even ' many springs that It will not all the ' extra tillage and firming of the soil 1 nill be well paid for In other ways J lhan by retaining the moisture, and should the spring prove one of the uld time very dry ones, it may mean a crop or garden. |