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Show vVHY FARMER SHOULD TILE 3ueeat In Farming Attributed to 0 denying Water. If we only atop to think lor a moment mo-ment we ahull be surprlaed, perhape, to obaerve how much of our want of auccea In running I attributed to cauaea which thorough underlaying would remove. The clover crop, lor nno. would have been iibiindaut had It not been badly frozen out and heaved In the aprlng, while perhapa another man hna loat nearly all hla wheal crop by a eaon too wet fol hla Intnl. A farmer haa tibmied hi mrn early, and laler rain have rotted the eee.l In the ground, while perhaps a neighbor hna been compelled by the nine rulua lo wait ao long before lilautlug thai thu aeaaon baa been too hort, and the crop liaa not matured belol'e the front In the full. Some olu elae hna worked hla clayey rami tin wet bcraune the aeanon w.iuld allow him lo tti.lt no longer. It could not be properly tilled and later on baked, rio. many of the crop have wholly or partially (ailed, and all because at too much cold water la Ih null. Too iiiuih cold water In al the bottom bot-tom or mont of thene complaint of unfiivonilile aeaaon. aa well an of mont of our nolln, and It In In our poucr to rumnto the i-il.me urn! al the name time tu add dollara to our bank tceouuta. In other wot'dn. we uiunt tintlei'druln ill our cultivated land that nature ha not already underdrnlned. and to a great extent we nhall reuse complain-, lug or the aeanonn on thene Kroundn. We ahull neldom have u aeaaon on ' thoroughly diuln.-d land that la tool wet or even loo dry, for uiiderdialnlng I la ulinont un aure a remedy for a drought a for a flood. i Although we usually regard dralu-nge dralu-nge nn u nieiina of limklun the land lit for cultivation, that aho.ild not be the only obj-et of the ..';. I'.uln I the principal amino of moisture for the aoll, and too much niolntiire la what we are trying lo rellove. but rain aa alao a aourc or fertility, not ouly because be-cause It afford the necessary moisture mois-ture to dlnaolve the element of plant food already In the aoll, but becuune lt toutatua In Us. If or brings with It (from the nlmnnpliero valuable ferll-lltlng ferll-lltlng aiibnlancea. Iluln water alwaya contiiliia In aolutton ammonia, carbolic car-bolic Held ran and inygun. Now the iimmonla contiiliia aa nltrngren our most (.'xpenslve mnnurlnl Ingredient, and when w nnd that the nivuul rain-lull rain-lull usually contain from alx to eight pounda of nitrogen to th,e acre, should be careful to have the wul filler through the aoll Innteud of ov.a to that nothing may h hint to t Plunt. |