Show advantages OF FALLOWING among other things practice tends to conserve moisture and kills many noxious plants among the many advantages to the credit of tho the practice of summer fal lowing may bo be mentioned tho the con fon of moisture tho the eradication of weeds the preparation of the land tor for grain crops lit at a time when no other work Is pressing the availability of 0 summer fallowed fallowes fall owed land for seeding at tho the earliest possible date in the spring and the minor advantages ol of having suitable land tor for the growing of pure seed potatoes roots and vegetables at the least cost and with the greatest chance tor for success and that of being ablo able to secure two crops ol of with little or no further culli sum summer undoubtedly has some disadvantages but so long as th the growing 0 of f grain and more particularly ti ticul arly Irly boat remains the principal industry oi oti the province it will be necessary to 6 store up moisture against a possible dry season to restrain the weeds from overrunning the land and and on account of the short seasons to I 1 prepare at least a portion of the land to be cropped in the year previous to seeding and a well made summer fallow Is the best means to this end among the disadvantages are the liability of the soil to drift the over production of straw in a wet season causing late maturity and consequent danger of damage by frost and it Is claimed the partial exhaustion of the soil boll the former two may to a great extent be overcome by different moth methods do of cultivation and it if tho the soil can bo be prevented from drifting ono one of the reasons tor for the latter contention will disappear |