Show DEEP PLOWING URGED method has been arar practiced tic ed from time immemorial memorial fm As matter of carrying ov over er water I 1 in n soil and to receive fall rains and snow it Is one of most dominant fanotoro Fao Faal toro it la Is wonderful how little moisture penetrates our harder soils in summer no matter how abundant the rainfall may be and even long elpe riondo alenco with such solle soils hardly prepares one for their dry condition when one goes forth to plow the moisture falling failing so BO late this season there has not been so BO much evaporation and in some soils boils I 1 have observed the downward penetration has boen been much greater than with a great deal more precipitation in the summer bummer months and it Is likely to endure for some time giving an op tor for deep plowing it Is not ned necessary essary hero to urge deep plowing to la suitable sul tabla to all conditions the point la Is la Is it not necessary to our hard land especially those to be dry farmed merely as a matter of carrying over water in the soil and for the entrance of later rains and snows Is it not the oio aio most moat dominant factor in producing crops Is not the question of making use of our denser dry solla boils one of bringing thern them more to tile the porous co condition of bf the sandier soil which absorb all the rainfall and a great deal of snow enow before it evaporates in our warm sun and dry atmosphere it the answer Is yes then tile the importance of plowing deeply when conditions aro are favorable as nt at present must not bo be overlooked unless we have command of deep tillage tools and power to operate them and even with these a less expensive result will be claimed than in a dry time I 1 have not the data and do not know even that it exists to show at what point gravity overcomes tho the pumping power of the sun isun to draw moisture from the soll boll but it to Is at no great depth so long as the soil Is kept stored and pipes are not formed through which the water can evaporate roughly speaking I 1 should say that when moisture has descended sight eight to ten inches it will be with any reasonable top mulch either from good plowing or cultivation continue in large measure to descend and that short of six inches it will be very apt to ascend in vapor and largely dasa disappear P no matter how bow carefully we try to retain the dust mulch on large tracts of land theoretically the dust mulch will hold it pe perhaps also in practice so long me 09 no cropping interferes with cultivation but tor for practical results i jt it in ill fc 0 desirable to got get the moisture down as far as possible from the suns attraction which raises it to the winds and evaporation in an at mo sphere which with us almost always absorbs moisture this same moisture when it has baa descended scented to a depth of eight to twelve inches lies BB a poultice on the subsoil and softens it and descends yet deeper where in its original state the subsoil was quite incapable of absorbing it in the small quantities which lay on it tor for only a short time and thus we get penetration ot of moisture to five six or more feet and have accomplished something permanent quite different from merely wetting live five or six inches of top soil by light plowing it js is that crops WRY d usa ae the moisture but its effects on a the subsoil will remain biot abib become absorbent N to future rains a abw ni snows |