Show fall rye hya ali there ere are a few crops that the american tanner farmer can use more profitably than this when it is sown early to III the tall fall and the weather Is favorable for or the plant it affords a great amount ot of pasture for or babies colts or pigs writes S blanchard 11 in journ journal a I 1 of A ag ri culture in much ot of he W weather eather during the fall when pastures are short the cows can be turned upon the land to teed feed and that will make the eife it smile with joy when she goes to town tow with her well filled jars or palls pails 0 of butter the farmer too will smile with pleasure when he beholds his calves colts and all ali other stock entering upon the w winter inter in such fine condition condit loa during much ot of the winter blien they are turned out ot of their yards they will start at once for the rye field in tact fact it can be pastured nearly all tinier when the ground Is s not covered with snow it can also be pastured quits quite late in the spring and when the stock is all removed will often spring up it if weather is favorable and afford to the farmer a fair air crop of grain or the field can be plowed up in the curio and planted to corn or some other crop the fall plowing will have made the land more mellow for any spring crop all farmers who have fields that can be utilized in this way should not fall to sow rye years ago many of 0 the farmers in kansas pastured their wheat fields when not covered with some thought it was no detriment to their crops while many question qu estloa the utility of the practice but rye Is one of our hardiest handiest har diest grains drought doa not affect it as it does wheat or oats mechanical effects 0 of I 1 drainage the ills 1 mechanical effects of drainage are to lo i deepen the soil and promote its more aw thorough pulver pulverization iza tion its first effect Is to dry its surface soil by drache out of i it t all the surplus moisture so ED that in early spring or late autumn it may be worked with the plow as advantageously as at midsummer summer A wt wet soil can never be properly pulverized and the plowing or work working n a clay SOJI soil or beven aven a heavy loan loam when wh en wet lenda only to puddle it and render it lea 10 pervious to water and air rain wall and vilrie variety ty quantity contains a great of fertilizing substances and it dopes its theril them in the soil during its pas ya through it both these facts are perceptible cep tible to the senses without resort to chemical tests |