Show PREPARING LAND FOR FLAX deep plowing found to be ba all right if rains followed immediately experiments in colorado dy ALVIN C colorado expert I 1 ment station Exper experience lenco with flax on the plains through the seasons of 1909 13 show that to be successful lax flax land must be ba well prepared in those seasons when thero there la is considerable spring moisture sufficient clent to compact soils that were plowed deep plowing gave the best results these better results from deep plowing in those these cases where there was waa moisture enough were due in a large part to the cleanness of tho the land that is the freedom of 0 the soil from weeds it was amly noticed that the deep plowed land aas was not as foul as aa the shallow plowed deep plowing was found to ta be all right if rains followed immediately or it tho the plowing was waa done bev oral months ahead of planting so that compaction and settling took place in 1313 1913 deep plowing just before planting the crop almost caused corn com pleto failure because rains did not follow sufficient to moisten the plowed layer ayer and compact tho the subsurface it if deep plowing is used therefore thore toro in preparing the seed bed it should be ba done dome at a considerable time before planting where plowing Is ia dono done immediately prior to planting plowing should be shallower aay six or seven inches at the outside and should bo be followed up immediately with the disk harrow to compact and fill up the subsurface smooth well prepared land greatly insures the success ot of the tha crop this was especially shown in experiments of 1911 and 1912 and was waa shown up in tho the other years |