Show definition OF DRY FARMING merely deep deef tillage and surface cut ti t to 0 retarn the moisture in the soil it Is what everybody who ever cults rated a garden as it should be done las iss practised practiced ever since boyhood says farm stock and home dry farming Is IB merely deop deep ti tillage ilage and surface cultivation to hold the moisture where it will be forced out through the stems of the plants A man who will sit down and study what ry alie be does in his garden through the 1 t season will learn more about dry farming than all the farm paper articles A L can tell him in seven years j first it if he wants a good garden he puts plaits plenty of well rotted manure on it this man manure ure furnishes humus and supplies plant food to the soil it makes the soil porous so that it will hold more a air ir and more bore water than ground next to it it he wants to make a real good lob job of 0 gardening he will put a disk onto the land before it Is or plowed and biffl ni il lo 10 florcen gen up the surface soil as much as possible then he brings out the old plow and gets billy to ride the beam so as to turn as deep a furrow as possible when he is making garden the farmer has no fear that deep plowing is going to hurt the crop it Is only N when hen he is putting in wheat for instance th that such tears fears come coma along to annoy him after the land ja is plowed he goes to work and disks and harrows and planks it down making the subsurface as solid as he can cam la in order that he may have a good I 1 seed bed and this is not all he keeps at it working more and more compact until the whole garlen garden Is in as fine RS as possible ile he Is not especially afraid about its being too late in the season he just naturally prefers to let the land warm up before he puts in his garden stuff then comes the cultivation before tb the e vegetables show above the gro ground u rid the wheel hot Is set to work and the rake follows all summer long working odd minutes he keeps ahead of 0 the weeds and covers the ground with a fine dust mulch the result of this work Is in many instances very satisfactory garden sass and it is just the kind of work differing only in degree that the suc zestful dryland dry land farmer must E apply on his extended acres |