The Harlowton news. [volume] (Harlowton, Mont.) 1909-1914, 1910-08-26

Do SClcnClnCalIy WOTkcu OuC UclOIc CHo
Of fall blowing or spring
blowing can be positively known. The
future behavior Of the crops in this
test at the substation will doubtless
throw considerable light on the ques-
ton. II it is found that one method
produces as high yield as the other,
then the question will have to be set
tied by each farmer for himself, &C
cording to his own conditions and con-
venience. The most successful dry
farmers in tile mountain states prac-
tice fall blowing; the general practice
of the substation is to pillow In the
fell, and the results are satisfactory;
so that it is believed in the light of
the present knowledge that fall plow-
ing is to be generally preferred.
Concerning the depth OF blowing
the circular says:
"The most successful practice at
present on the dry lands is TO pillow to
depth of from seven to ten inches.
There have been instances where
blowing deeper than ten inches and
even subsoiling to depth OF Is to IL
inches have been profitable returns,
but until the actual results Of these
methods are scientifically determined,
as contemplated by the test at the
81 bstation, blowing seven to ten inches
| deep is recommended"
ut is often stated that it is impos-
sible to cultivate fallow soil too
MUCH" the report asserts. "This is
not always true, esnecially on heavy
clay soil. If such soil is narrowed
until the surface is very fine dust, 1t
crusts very readily after a rain, and
packs extremely hard. 1t is we'll to
keep the surface soil loose, but the
maintenance of dust mulch, strictly
speaking, is not desirable. On light,
sandy soils the danger of excessive
cultivation, however, is not so i'm
portant."
An Illinois experiment station bull
letin says that all roads, except those
on pure sand, can be materially i'm
proved by the drainage. This opinion
seems to be concurred in many ILL
nois farmers in localities where such
tiling has been done; and it is the
+ universal opinion of all those farmers
who have had best success in draining
their own land. The cost of the tile
drainage there is but about SO cents
a rod, or Sl6O per mile, and the i'm
provement is permanent with little or
no subsequent cost for maintenance.
The benefit of roads is immediate and
certain, and the soil is then in the
best possible condition for a gravel OF
, stone road. "Roads tiled without
gravel are better than roads gravelec
without tile"
Farmers Bulletin No. IS, published
by the agricultural department, al
Washington, says that in order tt
, lhave good roads it is just as necessary
that water should not be allowed tt
r attack the substructure from below
: as that 1t should not be permitted
, to perculate through from above
This is especially true in cold eli
+ mate where, If water is allowed t.
II remain in the substrueture, the who'll
n road is liable to be broken up and de
n stroyed by frost and the wheels O
- vehicles.
n alarming reports have reached tn
k Minnesota experiment station of tn
le destruction of entire fields of timoth
le by caterpillars," says the Universit
b. Farm Press of st. Paul. '"The stat
" entomologist and his assistants hav
A. found these caterpillars to be arm
ly worms, and farmers have been advise
le to spray timothy heads or other crop
d. being injured, close to the worms G
I'll at edge of field across the line {
&c march, and between the caterpillar
in and the crop which they threaten
as Farmers are therefore resorting to
I'd spray of arsenate of lead, where the
as can get it, or paris green. Where
e. Is possible to pillow one or two furrOW
le- across their line of march betwee
g. them and crop which they threate
SIS to attack, it is good plan to do 81
hi making the steep side of the furro
he toward the above mentioned GRO
to When they gather in these furrov
on they can be killed with kerosene.
ire apparently the localities affectt
Try are places where there was no ia
.ve blowing last season. These caterp
he lars are IN their resting stage in II
Ids ground over winter. Fall blowing
use therefore the farmers safeguard"
3D. Superintendent Wilson of The Exte
ar sion division at University farm sa
DE that sugar beets offer good field f
lo' intensive farming. The average vie
II T.,