Crittenden record-press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1909-191?, 1911-07-20
DRY FARMING
A New Scientific Discovery That
Will be Of Great Value to
All Farmers.

farmers III the great corn belts OF
the West and North.
The whole secret is in conserv-
inf the moisture-rain in Decem-
Der held in the soil and used by a
growing crop in August and Sep
TENDER. How accomplished
Break land in fall and early win
ter, let it lay and abscrkall the rain
and snow water all winter. Land
wants to be we'll broke and plow-
ed deep as possible. Then in early
spring to keep down weeds and
grass shallow break or disc. You
will have to cultivate surface to
keep down vegetation and also to
keep crust from forming. Ground
will have to be plowed or harrow
ed after every rain all spring and
summer to prevent crust form
ing and letting the moisture evap-
crate. The crust that forms on
the surface OF a well cultivated
field after a rain acts like a wick
to draw out the moisture. Every
sprig of grass, every bush or weed,
acts like a flame to the wick to
Eighten the process OF evapora
ton. The soil must be kept loose
on top-have a mulch of fine clods,
not dust, to hold down the mois-
ture.-a lump of ice covered with
straw or chaff will last for days
out in the summers sun, so will
the moisture remain if mulch is
kept on top of soil. Late planting
OF corn would perhaps be better
two or three shallow discings at
intervals of 10 days or more,
enough to keep down weeds and
grass and prevent crustation. Al
ter planting corn, tobacco, pota-
toes or any cultivated crop. There
is no such thing as laying it by or
getting done with pillow and hoe
until the crop is matured. Corn
wants to be plowed after every
rain until in roasting ear and until
grain gets hard or is matured. The
grass and weeds must be kept
down-not one sprig of anything
except the crop cultivated and by
maturity it is supposed to have
taken up all the moisture, there
is none to spare for weeds and
grass. The old-time custom OF
blowing corn and taking mess OF
roasting ears out of the same field
and off the same stalks that's be-
ing plowed to the house for din
ner will again become the fashion,
provided it rains during the sum-
mer or grass and weeds interfere.
A dry season would not take many
rlowings. Level and shallow
cultivation is decidedly the best.
Orchards need the same cultiva-
ton as corn or tobacco. Orchards
sowed in grass or let grow up had
as we'll be cut down. Planting
corn or any kind of crop in an
orchard does injury to land and
orchard both. The orchard needs
more fertilizer added, not robbed
OF its own fertilizer by weeds,
grass or some kind of crop taken
off it every year. There's no
laying by of an orchard. Its bat
tie every year against weeds and
crustation of soil is smaller; acre
age larger yields. Fifteen acres OF
corn if cultivated according to
new method will yield as much
as rs or so acres under the old
plan. Every farmer, if not every
body, ought to read some agricul-
ture paper and as they can be had
from ten cents per year up to 81,
the price need not interfere. The
farmers have a serious problem
on hand now of feeding the
on hand now of feeding
the world with the ma
jority of the people living in
SO to 100 per cent. in the yield OF
crops would lessen the burden
and add millions to the pockets
of the agriculturists.