Show 0 PREPARING p ARING FOR FALL GRAINS G getting t m g Mol into inlo soil golf and safely adored Is something often neglected lecter on dry farms farm the most important part in soil moisture conservation the most moat fill portana factor in try dry farming anol and the ow which has been most moot greatly neglected by our western farmers la in getting the rainwater into tile tho ground and safely stored or conserved in tile alio subsoil where it may be ba drawn upon by tile tho growing crop writes A al ton ten ryck eyck in denver field and farm i tho the firming and pulverizing of tile tho soil oll to restore capillarity and tho the coti cultivation ti to to maintain tile tho soil eoll mulch are each without avail unless thero there Us has been stored in file deep cioll a amount of 0 moisture to support tile growing crop crol in time of drought tile the plan of producing a mulch tp conserve the moisture in the soil has been more or less lesa su successfully C cess fully practiced for many years but in a n very dry year this method failed because therl was waa no moisture stored in the soil to be conserved b by Y 11 the moisture should bo be stored at all times during tile tho season but especially during the interval between harvest and planting tile the plan should be in tile the beginning of the pre para tion of the seed bed to put the soil in the most favor favorable ablo condition to receive the rain rafn and carry it downward into tho the subsoil this Is provided by disking king soon after harvest or late in the fall fail or early in the spring deep plowing a 0 long time before planting leaving the soil mellow and rough en ell larges the alie water reservoir and favors tho the absorption of heavy rains out tho the best plan of storing moisture Is to lie ila the soil boll in deep furrows and high ridges soon after harvest or in the fall after tile the corn or corn la is cut if this work cannot be accomplished in the fall winter listing or early spring listing to Is de desirable in preparing tile tho land for winter wheat one plan Is 13 to list tho the ground with the ordinary corn lister as soon after harvest as ag possible tho the lister furrows are run about three and a halt half feet apart vory very much tho the same came as aa when planting corn later when whan the weed seeds have germinated the soil eoll la Is worked back into the listed furrows by means of a harrow and disk cultivator several are usually required with the spike tooth or disk harrow in order to leave the field and bring it into good seed beed bed condition once over with the disk cultivator t I 1 vator la Is sufficient suni clent to fill the furrows the further work necessary to pro pure pare tile the seed bed being given with the common harrow |