Show CREATING DUST MULCH do not attempt anything with clods in the fall rain and melted malted snow permitted to run down and water can be con served by a proper dust mulch soils bolls not all alike it la Is possible in the semiarid see sec lion of the country and on light soils in any section to form such a dust mulch as will favor blowing espell especially I 1 in n dry timo time and more particularly on lands that aro are somewhat worn and somewhat deficient in soil boll moisture it to la utterly impossible for any person to malio make suggestions on the management of land that will apply infallibly to all k kinds ands of land under all sorts aorta of weather conditions and in all sections we would nat attempt to do anything with clods in the fall says W wallaces al laces farmer we would not harrow ground in the fall b but ut would leave it rough for the su subsequent freezing and thawing will bill break vp up the clods while the roughness of 0 tho the land will give the frost a better chance to get in its Is work as ai well as aa catch inow and rain min where land Is light where la is it U 0 ox posed to high winds where experience teaches that it to Is liable to blow we would keep the prevention of blowing always in mind it Is difficult to know just how to handle these lands I 1 af they are harrowed till the surface Is a line fine dust there Is every opportunity tor for tho the soil itself to blow away it they are rolled with a flat roller they are more likely to blow than it if left loose the tha disk roller or a packer while compacting the soil leaves it 11 somewhat rough and prevents blowing we saw one year in the state elate ol of iowa an entire crop of wheat from ton acres of land blown out into the roads the danger is much greater in the semiarid country clod formation can be prevented by first disking then plowing and ana harrowing directly afterwards so that clods have no c hance chance to form no matter what agricultural papers A man may read or how many books or how great their general value the farmer must study his own farm and his own conditions and feel tree free to go directly contrary to advice nd no mat ter er how good it may be under widely differing conditions from his you cannot treat sandy soils the tha same way you do clay nor can you treat the light soils the same way you do the heavy soils in that same section nor can you treat either of them as you would 13 uld gumbo soil in the valleys r brair n tho nemi arld id section the soil oil cleavage Is entirely different from that of the humid see sec uon flon in the humid section the str strata at are so to speak horizontal in the semiarid sem larid section perpendicular professor ten eyck who had bad long experience in the kansas dry belt experiment peri ment station once said to us that he had the best results by listing the soil deep late in tho the fall and leaving it rough so that the rain and melted snow could run down and the water could be conserved by a proper dust mulch in any section where land is liable to lu blow wo we would be careful about using the harrow more than Is necessary and would under no circumstances use a smooth roller the abo more vegetable matter you ou get into that soil and therefore the more root fiber the less lesa it is likely to blow there are solla that are now considered good which if they are kept growing corn tor for a few years until the vegetable fiber Is decomposed cannot be well hold held even by a warranty deed |