Show FALL PLOWING IS 13 MOST IMPORTANT OPERATION the most important tillage operation on the dry lands I 1 Is plowing with the element of time the controlling factor in n the production of high or low yield yields in a a speech delivered by dr john A widtsoe soe several year years ago ahr state ment was made that to leave all plow ing ng on the dry farms until spring wa was a crime against the owner of the land god and humanity thia this forceful ad vice still bold according to results se cured at the nepal dry farm station data which have accumulated over a period of twenty years show no differ ence enle between fall and spring plowing providing the spring plowing is done within a period of ten day days after te tae soil first scours free from the disk or moldboard later pl plowing owings however show marked reductions in yield with failure fal litre almost certain for land turned after lifter the weeds and volunteer praia tiare here dissipated the moisture which has pe re cumulated from the winter snows and hapring rains most cf the stubble on the dry farms Is left for turning under in spring here herel in the great basin it is a phy physical sial biml possibility to plow all of this land within the period time limit mentioned or within an extended period of two weeks under present low prices for wheat the highest possible are nee sarv if production costs are to be escurel from the lard on the levan ridge labor charges on a twenty bushel yield aro are fifty six cents per bushel bushe on a ten bushel crop over the time of plowing is usually responsible for much of this wide laria variation tion the Is aa obvious part ef 1 the land this fall leaving such ap al amount for spring that this 0 operation p aeration c can an be completed in ta alft a fiort 1 ort period I 1 stated aaron F bracken of the experimental dry farm at nepal |