Show BENEFITS OF PLOWING best time alm 0 for breaking Is late fall or early winter in average case it Is fit better to plow a little too deep than too shallow work must do da performed with some judgment in this arid region the best beat time to do the breaking la Is in the winter when the ground Is not frozen and to Is reason ably moist for the work tile tho advantages of early winter plowing are that time can well bo be spared for tho the work tho the days on teams and extra plowing done now will bettor better equalize labor of tho the year and prevent the necessity tor for rush rueh in the spring when so 00 many different things aro are crowding in tor for attention writes henry andrews in denver field and farm F arm some of tho the laiad inird plowed in n lato into fall all and early winter will not need to be ro plowed cd next spring but it if some of it must be plowed again tho the labor will be well spent apont there la Is seldom any danger but often much good in stirring tho the soil soft often in fact the productive capacity of many solla would be materially increased by a double plowing for each crop planted nut but what about deep plowing in winter or at any timo of the year in the average case it la in certainly bettor better despite what some of tile the washington experts told us at the dry farming congress to plow a little too deep rather than a little too shallow however extra deep plowing must be done with judgment some solla soils will be greatly benefited while others may possibly bo be injured by it any soil coll that Is full of humus and Is black and deep Is bonef ted by extra deep plowing at any time thin soils with only a taw few inches of humus near tho the surface should be deepened gradually the subsoil of 0 such buch land its Is sterile or nearly so it if a largo proportion of this sterile subsoil la Is turned up to the surface au r at one plowing the fertility of tho the seedbed may be diluted or weakened ened unless manure Is applied to bring brine it in on thin land the surface humus should not bo be burled buried so deeply that germinating seeds and young roots cannot easily reach it on such land where deop deep plowing to Is done the furrow should bo be turned to stand on edge rather than turned completely over to bury the top soil sell and leave only sterile hardpan at the surface at the time this article la Is being written the first week of november I 1 preparing am a field of thin adobe soil for or plowing this field has baa been I 1 in n pasture it Is fairly well covered with droppings from the animals it Is now being covered with a thin coating ot of ina manure itura As soon as it to la covered tt it will be dl eXeda nd plowed about eight inches deep with four horses to a two borso plow it if the tha draft la Is not too heavy it will be plowed nine or of ten inches deep after this thin layer has been plowed it will be allowed to lie in rough furrows all winter to weather later in the winter when the ground to s frozen stable manuro manure Is to be hauled and scattered over the entire meld field in the spring all Is to bo be plowed ver over 0 again to a depth of about six inches in this way organic matter will have been given to tho the subsoil and a considerable quantity will bo be mixed with all of at the tha top soil to supplement the humus already there this lold Is to be planted to corn next spring an early maturing variety will be used and the corn will be removed early for soiling so 80 that the land may be further prepared and seeded to wheat the first of next september I 1 will got get some spent lime from tho the sugar factory and put on a layer of it in tho the spring the disking will be deep and thorough in order to cut the manure finely and to mix it well with the soil to make tho the seedbed of at uniform texture as well as deep and for fertile |