Show STUBBLE IS OF VALUE LEAVE AS MUCH IN GROUND AS POSSIBLE FOR TWO REASONS one Is I 1 that it may be plowed under for fertilizer and other that it may catch snow and help ac cumulate moisture hy rb PARSONS in harvesting small emall grain it Is most important to leave as much ot of tho the stubble on the ground as possible tor for two entirely different and distinct purposes one is that it may be plowed under tor for fertilizing purposes the other that it may catch the snow and help to accumulate moisture for it Is just as necessary to absorb the water as it Is to conserve it id in california they keep up the fertility of the wheat fields by heading tind and they plow the straw under some farmers pasture stock on it and then plow the manure under which amounts to much the same thing the treatment ot of a field subsequent to the harvesting period depends on ils physical condition at the time and on the needs of the next crop to be raised on it supposing wheat follows wheat without any fal lowing which by the way we do not recommend tor for rotation is much better than single cropping then the laud land should bo be plowed as soon as it is possible the stubble turned under and the field left in a receptive condition for precipitation until planting time tor for the winter wheat in september there is an axiom in dry farming which I 1 would impress on my readers never raise spring wheat in a country where winter wheat flourishes the reasons are too obvious to need explanation and too many to print in this article but I 1 might quote from the united states department part ment ot of agriculture that the yield tor for winter wheat is 14 bushels average per acre as against nine for spring wheat on the dry farm small grain should ibe be followed by corn sorghum or potatoes but the moisture question often cuts our rotation down to small grain corn and alfalfa it if the field is intended tor for corn or sorghums sorg hums it should bo be plowed in the tall fall and the crops planted in the a spring P ring but it if the physical condition of the field is such that it cannot be plowed in the fall it can be left in the stubble all winter disked as soon as it is pastured off and plowed as deeply as possible as soon as the frost will permit As far as the plowing Is concerned every inch ot of depth counts in dry farming especially up to ten inches the difference between six inch plowing and ten inch plowing often doubling the crop when we thoroughly appreciate this tact fact there will be no more failures in dry farming it if the land is intended tor for another crop ot of winter wheat after being summer fallowed fall owed it may also be left in the tha stubble stubbly and treated as tor for corn but tho the plowing should be done la in iday hay or june when the weeds are all dp ap eight or nine inches high this method makes for fertility and more than bian supplies the humus lost in cultivating there is a period however between the time when the frost is out ot of the ground and the plowing which must be bridged over by disking in the manure left on the ground by the cattle this will also mulch the land and bury the weed seeds which will come up later on and be turned under by the plow fall plowing is the best tor for corn it if the soil la Is light and the lister Is used in the spring spring plowing us usually best beat tor for the sorghums sorg hums fall plowing is the best tor for oats oata on any land tor for this crop needs deeply plowed but solid soil and nothing is better than natures packing by plowing ten inches deep and allowing the land to settle all winter 75 bushels per acre may often be raised on the lest best soil |