The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-01-20

farms of the middle md eastern states.
Gypsum N water IL also very useful
where land contains salt or aiiten and
where large quantities are available. It
Is being used to reclaim lands too aika-
line for grlculturai purposes have
been using water FOR tho past b.rsu
years containing about six hundred teoo)
parts IN q million (.0oo.0OO) both Of salt
ard gypsum and have produced two
good crops per annum Of seedlings on
ions At the rate OF two hundred (200)
bushels per acre IN spring followed w
turniD crop sown about She frst Of
September. yielding from about orc
hundred and nifty r5o) to two hundred
and nifty t25Q) bushels OF sweet nnd ten
der table turnlps: but It must be said
that this land was good deep gray sandy
loam. but had not been fertiiIzed dur
Ing the whole seven years use, yet the
yield would Indicate that land Il Just
as good now as when first put in cuiu-
walton.
How TO Use Water After an Adequate
supply Has Been Secured.
First Break the land very dcep
which can be done with good mould
board piow drawn hy three good. quiet
horses. with the clevices 80 adjusted
that only a comparatively narrow fur
row will ba cut: thus enabling one to
20 deeper than II a broad furrow was
being piowed. Then follow with an
other good team Of three. drawing n
subsoil plow. home made, II better
one Is too expensive, or not available
To work subsou plow take piece Of
axle timber IN the rough. put a pair OF
common rough plow handles on Il, run-
ming strap-iron braces from the handles
forward to the beam, then fix adjustable
clevices so that the beam can be made
TO follow the furrow, regardless Of where
the center OF eVenener may be. then
YOU are ready for the standard and
mole The standard may be made OF a
bar of steel six inches wide. five-eghth
Of an inch thick and q. inches long.
Have ab iacksmith 10 weld and fashion
on this standard at one end a half
round piece Of steel. quite Ike a small
shoe last. but with an even taper. maxi
ing il quite sharp at the point on the
sides near the front also make the
front edge OF standard sharp to part
the earth with the least draft. Mortlse
the slot in the back part OF the beam
to receive the standard. then wedge the
Standard IN the proper position and Il Is
ready for use. with this you can fol-
low the breaking plow and loosen the
earth to depth Of fifteen or twenty
inches. which will give land thus broken
a capacity to absorb the heaviest rains
as they may fail and thereby lessen the
need Of irrigation 20 an extent never
dreamed Of by those who have not seen
it tried.
This breaking should be done in the
fall or winter, the earlier the better
for reasons too obvious TO need expia-
nation For further preparation, you
may use disc-harrow, drag-harrow OF
plank drag. When the land is made into
a mrs. class seed bed, mark of the rows
for most vegetables a distance Of three
feet TO forty-two inches; then with q
/ Georgia stock and one horse make youl
| irrigation burrows, and after each fur
rowing use a light drag to distrihrt,
the earth that has been thrown up viii
the sweep and Georgia stock Repca
the process until your rows or buds arr
Nat and firm on top, then you are read,
for seeding or transplanting. II afte
the seeds have been sown OF plant
set, your land needs water MAKE a small
ditch at the upper end Of your rows viii
any suitable plow; the rows having beel
so laid out that the water win follow
very gentle grade. when an these de
tails hnve had careful attention YOU ar
ready 10 irrigatc. Then. with hoe o
shovel breal- the embanixment al tn
en- def each fusrow and turn IN smal
rln of wlter- Just enough TO reach IN
far end Of the re vs. but not wnstc. Wac
the sides Of the burrows have been w
and there IS wet streak on the side
Of the beds ihee or four tneH ,s vii,
ihe lanG IA shad enough wafer uTlcs