| Show USING DISK BEFORE PLOWING one of tho the mot most important practices practice in handling of solle So ilLand land will absorb more moisture Mola turc ny BY at V F MILLER mims ourt expert ment station the staking or stalk or stubble land before plowing la is one of the tha most im practices in the handling of soils tho the recent droughts have em am its importance each year larger numbers of farmers are following tills this practice which has haa been recommended and used by the mis ails court agricultural experiment station tile tho disk disking irig of 0 land before plowing to la ono ona 0 tho the things which all farmers but particularly those located on high priced corn belt land should practice borne men have found it pro profitable to disk bluegrass blue grass sod eod but the practice has its ita groa greatest test advantage when applied to stalk and stubble land the soil will absorb more water when it Is disked before plowing this has baa been a very important point in recent years when the soil moll has been rarely soaked with water the more water stored in the soil when tho the crops are ara put in the larger will be tile the return if the season is ili dry the thorough mixing of the stalks stubble and other surface matter with the boll which results from the disking to lu very advantageous on stalk land particularly the weighted disk takes taken the place of tho the stalk cutter and this thin at the samo same time thoroughly mixes the organic matter with the soil A disk may also aleo be used to cut up green ma ina nure crops before turning them under and brings about ft a more thorough mixing of this organic matter alth ith the goll one of the fundamental principles in plowing any land to la to thor hughly mix the organic matt matter er the surface soil and this Is great greatly ly favored by disking in advance of t tho 0 plow land with 96 pulverized surface can bo turned with a plow in such a way lie as to give a much better seedbed tl than where the disking Is not done the land plows more easily and the pulverization Is at tho the same time more tL orough the disk harrow Is one of the roost most valuable of farm implements and it itt use in advance of the plow I 1 la 5 lust just ati an important as its use following the plow |
