Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-12-05
ADVANTAGES or FALL FLOWN G

Next spring, when teams are soft
men have the spring fever aud work
Is pressing, ploughing seems slow ana
Is very hard work. II pushed too hard
the teams get sore, ana II not the work
soon pushes the farmer a good lot
or ploughlng done this fall will relieve
the situation wonderfully.
There are many reasons why this can
be done proiitably. Help can be hired
cheaper, as many boys are through
their summers work and want work.
The teams are toughened by their sea-
sons work and can stand all man
can, and the farmer can spare them at
this time. The weather is cool and in
MIGRATING, so the team does not be-
come exhausted and the hired man
VIII not take any comfort sitting on
the plough, but keeps going to keep
warm. The fall crops are all secured,
and nothing is being wasted or neg
lected If the ploughing is done in No
vember After the fall rains have. per-
meated the soil 1t turns up easily and
the plough does good work. holding
easily for the ploughman.
IN fail ploughing, says G. T., Chap,
the burrows should not be turned over
Hat but left on a slant. so that the
frost Will penetrate To the bottom OF
the furrow, and the full filming effect
of the freezing be obtained. This me-
chancal effect is much more effective,
cheaper and thorough than the work
OF the harrow Worms of most kinds.
grubs and beetles make preparation for
winter at the approach OF cold weather
by incasng themselves I'm well closed
coated cell, made round so as to re-
sist the pressure of the frost. If the
soil is turned over and the cells are
broken just before cold weather most
of them VIII be killed, as they do not
have time to construct "A new home. II
is pressure, not cold, that kills them,
or they would all be dead. Clay, which
breaks UP in Jumps viii be so affected
that one narrowing at the proper time
will leave a mellow surface.
Manure drawn and spread during
winter Will be leached and soaked into
the soil insuring more complete mix
ing, and II harrows in well. Fan
ploughng sod commences To decay, and
will break up and mix with the soil,
acting as humus, making the land
darker in color, cooler and more moist,
After strong barnyard manure has laid
all winter and been narrowed in, cross
ploughing brings in the sod, which all
goes to pieces. The decaying sod IL
converted into plant food, and no bet
ter preparation can be made for pota-
toes. Sod ploughed In spring will not
decay in time to aid materially the sea-
sons crop, on weedy farms the har-
rowing can be begun earlier in the
spring and one or more sproutings OF
weed seed can be killed before time
to SOW and plant,
For some reason II Is generally con-
ceded that many of our crops must be
sown earlier than formerly to secure
good yield. oats, especially, yield ac-
cording to the time they are sown.
Potatoes used TO do we'll planted in
June, later In May, and now seem to
do better planted In April. Disease
blight and germs attack the crops and
destroy their vigor. These various
forms OF disease have their season Of
growth the same as oats and potatoes,
and an early planted crop will get more
growth before II Is time for the "trou-
bles" to put In their work.
Where the bulk of the ploughing Is
done in the fall the ground can be
worked earlier and the time can ba
spent In sowing and planting instead
OF ploughing. Spring work always
crowds, and some OF the minor details
and fence repairing have to be neg
lectel. A farmer must work for future
results, and not for today.-N. Y. 1ri-
bune Farmer.
Another special advantage for fall
ploughing, especially I'm Utah. 1t opens
the soil to receive and retain all the
moisture in the form of rain and snow
that may fall. where It is retained till
drawn upon by next seasons crop,Land
ploughed I'm the fall has a chance 10 set
lie back and become firm, without
cracks In the subsoil, so that water will
rise rapidly. Land ploughed In the
spring, especially If on side hills, dries
out quickly, has no supply stored be-
Inv and the CrOpS suffer