Show DROUGHT MAY BE PREVENTED fall plowing should always alway be first step in preparing to combat dry seaton season to follow i naturally thera them to la no way in which a drought may be ba avoided when it really comes but chere are certain practices that will help to lessen its harmful effects wo we have had several era I 1 dry years in the last decade and it t Is time we were taking advantage of any and every plan whereby we wa may be able to save the moisture its in the soil tor for the benefit ot of the growing crops saving the moisture Is the one essential thing of 0 course to do that properly we ought to follow the plan of the man who uses dry farming methods and do most moat of our plowing in the tall fall fall plowing should always be the first step in preparing to combat dry season this will fill the soil with rain and snow water during the u winter inter and in the spring you can keep most of that water there by judicious and constant stirring of the tha soil eoll in the spring and even in the early mummer hummer the soil Is usually pretty well saturated with moisture it if we looked at it through we would see every soil particle surrounded by a thin film of water the good rains of 0 winter and spring have filled the soil spaces and packed the soil pretty tightly it it remains packed the films df at water surrounding the soil particles will vanish irwill it will be sucked up from particle to particle till it reaches the surface and the winds and the sun will pick up and whirl it away fighting off the effects of dry weather depends tor for its success on keeping keepin this mo moisture lature in the ground it cannot be permitted to reach the top once gone it Is not going to be replaced I 1 a ced in aidau midsummer amer the solution of the problem la Is keeping the soil water in the soil boll leave the soil to itself and in a little while a crust win will form over a plowed field or a stubble patch and then the real evaporation begins it if the surface Is scratched up and kept stirred the water will not coma to the surface but will remain in the tha soil where the plant roots can get at it |