The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1911-02-17


ably the subsoiler is the most salts.
factory implement we can use for this
purpose. We discussed at length in
the last issue of The Dakota Farmer
the type of subsoiler best adapted to
this area, and it's use. We will not
devote more space to this tool in this
issue.
Deep Flowing.
Where the subsoiler is not used, the
plow should be used to the greatest
possible depth. There has been much
controversy over the depth of break
ing that should be done. Generally
speaking the crop planted on the
breaking will be better in this area
if the breaking has not been too deep.
The best breaking so far as its effect
on the first crop is concerned, is, as a
general proposition, that which is
done at the depth at which it can be
turned over the fattest--made lie
closest to the undersoil.
However where breaking is done in
this way the matter of blowing deep
is generally deferred. If the next
time the land is plowed it might be
done to depth of two inches below
where it was broken, and with each
subsequent blowing little deeper,
thJ shallow breaking would undoubt-
edly be preferable.
However we must adapt ourselves
to conditions as we find them. When
it comes to backsetting the breaking
we generally find it has to be done at
time when the subsoil is dry and
hard, and generally speaking it seems
to be almost impossible to get the
plOw to work deeper than the land
was broken. The next blowing is quite
likely to be done when the subsoil is
equally hard, and as a consequence
we generally see a field plowed for
years at the same depth it was broken.
If this is going to be the process it
will be much more economical to
break the land deep in tie first place
even at the expense of the first crop
or two.
The ultimate result will be better.
We can stand two short crops better
than we can FIVE, and five short crops
generally results from shallow break
ing, and repeatedly blowing the land
at the same depth. it was broken.
The wife will not let her husband dig
cistern for her and only make it
four feet deep, if it is possible to make
it ten feet. She knows it will not hold
as much water if only four feet deep,
as it will at ten feet deep, the diane
ter being the same. But for some
reason or other so many farmers do
not appl i this logic to their fields.
How often.
We do not wish to be construed as
suggesting very deep plowing every
season. AS a general proposition the
soil should not be disturbed to an ex-
treme depth oftener than is necessary
to keep the under soil in condition
to accept the rainfall rapidly. The
frequency with which the deep tillage
will be necessary will depend very
largely upon the character to the soil
and must be determined by each
farmer for himself. If after the heav-
lest rains of the year he finds he is
Insipc, Y,1niOft,ra frp,,, hio GelI
of its running away, or because of it's
satuTating the soil at the surface or
so near it that it causes it to bake
and settle together, it is time to dis.
turb it to a greater depth. The crop
that suffers the most from the intense
heat we sometimes get in early July
is the crop on the field that has some
time since sowing been so full of water
that it was lying on the top OF the
ground.
This proposition of deep blowing is
not a theory, nor as in some of the
older states a question of bringing up
fertility in the new soil. it is purely
and simply matter of storing the
moisture that comes to us in large vol
umes. 1t seems to us to be perfectly
| logical. We have seen some results
from this system of tillage that could
not but be convincing to every one of
| our readers could they see them.
There is no use talking or writing
about conserving moisture-prevent-
! ing its vaporaJion-unless we have il
in the field. And it is equally as use
less to think of having it in the field
unless We have prepared these hard
compact soils and subsoils so that
they will receive it when it comes in
the from it usually reaches us--in the
immense downpours of short duration.
Wife Got Tip Top Advice.
My wife wanted me to take our
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