Show VALUE MOISTURE rain and snow that fall should be carefully don conserved served almost impossible to impress upon minds of farmers importance of giving most careful attention to this question jn in the dry areas moisture Is always precious the amount of moisture that falls in the form of rain Is always or nearly always low by no means that man can adopt can it be increased the only thing that can be done dane Is to adopt measures that will make falls go further than it would if it were not carefully considered in order to grow crops notwithstanding I 1 this fact it ii Is almost impossible to impress upon the minds of many farmers the importance of giving the most careful attention to this ques dom in montana the present season large quantities of prairie are being broken in many instances the land thus broken Is left as the plow left lef t it it has been turned over and it may be in a way that leaves it lying loosely says dakota farmer it if left thus through the summer season it will dry out so BO completely that no moisture moist t ure will be left should winter wheat be so bowed sowed wed on that land tile the mol moisture sture to ia not there to germinate it or to sustain germination it if it should start grain starting thus weakly Js sure to succumb in the winter that follows should no grain be sown sawn until spring the ground has jus that much less moisture that it would dh leave had cadby by the amount thai was rosf and ana yet this Is what very many are re doing it may b be e that some are constrained to do this by for force ce oil clidus circumstances atances as when the aone alone by steam p par dicave and di gave ati thus altum oft ay abea tit libY donot find It possible impossible to get tb th eland etland compressed pres ed at ai once and a duo dust mulch ma made ae upon j it the qu question estloA of harrowing grain rain is also one of the greatest Im importance importer portar we to the fa farmer in athe g dry bouly 1 i fittis fiT bis 1 Is a great question q ike stion we havet only touched upon its outer rim in some instances aslandes Ast andes ono one harrowing may maliq make more of a diff difference arence than can welt well tie be imagined in other instances it may do harm in the dry coli country from one to two har are nearly abw always aya helpful ra ta a grain crop in some instances from three to four may do good in hi the case of winter wheat one to two har may be beneficial in the autumn and from one to three in the spring if but two har bar are done in the spring let it be understood that as a rule one can best be given when hen the crop can first be discerned coming through the ground and tile the other after the plants are several inches high but no cast iron rules can be given A heavy rain fallings falling may call for harrowing at some different time the conditions also may call for the use af a different kind of harrow the dry farmer is not equipped for his work with only one harrow barrow the harrow that is suitable for one kind of soil and condition is not suitable it may be for another kind of soil ot or a different condition nor is the farmer in the dry country properly equipped for his work without a roller in some instances no may want a subsurface packer in other ather instances he will want a corrugated roller and yet again a plain roller these three may not always be wanted on the same farm but in the dry country they all have a place according to the conditions each farmer should have some kind of a clod crusher it may be of various forms but usually it may be homemade home made mado and therefore cheaply made the idea is to have something that will crush clods in lands that are more or less adobe in character such an implement if it can be called in implement is of immense value loth the roller and clod crusher are generally ae but not always to be used before the crop Is planted the clod crusher on uneven land or on cloddy adobe land may do a world of good byway of mashing clods at tho the right time of course the beginner imay may not beable to do doall all these things at the first but he should make the nearest ap possible to them on fifteen inches of rainfall a year good crops can be grown it if much of the moisture falls in the growing season but tho the success will be proportionate to the extent to which the moisture is hold deep plowing enlarges the room for it in the soil and prevents it f from rom running away over the surface into the streams |