The Springdale news., 1912-10-25
REASONS FOR DEEP FALL
 FLOWING.
FALL.

| REASONS TUX DEBT ALL
 FLOWING.
 Deep blowing is very beneficial when done at the right time and under the right conditions. The time for deep blowing is unquestionably ] n tie Fali when the sub-soil is as l a9y as possible. The sub-soil should not be stirred except in the fall. Land that tends 10 wash and land that might be damaged by teaching should always be sown to a winter cover crop. This cover crop should l b. soNn early enough to enable It l to get a good start before the se- we're part of winter Land inclined to be wet should be left in the routh and in ridges after blowing
 Deep Fall blowing enables one to use all the humus forming vegetable material left upon tile ground from 1 previous crop or crops. Stalks, weeds and grasses should never be burn l {. but should be tuned under. II these are p1owed under by deep blowing in the Fall, they will de compose and de ay in time Tor Spring planting Matter that has one been a vegetable will help make plant grow again. These grasses, weeds. stalks. etc. will not only enrich the soil, but will i'm prove the texture and thus allow the air to circulate more freely
 Many insects, for example, our recent pest, the grass worm, are de stroyed by Fall blowing and others are destroyed by later shallow blowing. In boil weevil territory, the cotton stalks should be plowed under just as early in the Fall as possible. because in this way the wintering place of the weeyils are destroyed During the winter there should De a shallow blowing, since the top layer of the ground is full Of ill nseets and these quickly die on being exposed to the winter atmos= l phere.
 The pressure Of the horses foot land even of the mans foot VIII ] pack the soil in very short time. This k especially true where farm i land is pastured during the winter. As a result. hard layer of earth 1 a few inches in thickness, is form ] ed just beneath the surface. or course. this is broken to a depth l of four or five inches with the blow, ] but underneath this loose layer IS l a hard layer not touched by the blow. 1t gets harder and harder so ithat water can hardly penetrate H.. The sub-soil cannot absorb heavy rainfall fast enough to prevent It's i flowing over the surface. As re suit the loose top soil Is gradually washed off But if this soil is made i porous by previous deep blowing land sub-soiling. the water will sink rapidly and not be apt to wash Each square foot of soil will hold the rainwater that falls on that amount of space When deep blow ing is done in the fall the ground will get the benefit of the heavy winter rains and will thus store up moisture for the long growing seas on This is of very much impor5 tance when one considers that the water necessary to make even an average crop of corn would cover the earth thirteen inches deep II all of 1t were present al one time. Many plants are composed almost entirely of water Some plants melons, etc, are about ninety eight per cent water Water ls seventy five per cent of the Yege able king dom
 Often lands seem poor and dc not produce good erel s5 when III faet Athe absence of sufficient water supply is the only difficulty This k evidenced by the fact that a 1rainy season nearly always results in good erep on lands which have not been properly prepared 10 hold moisture IL can therefore, be seeh and readily agreed upon that our Hands should be managed so as 19 retain the greatest amount of mois-
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 sufficient. This 9an only be done bv breaking and sub=soiliug the land 10 sufficient depth 70 retain the moisture, increasing the storage ca paeity, SO to speak.
 When you plow deep and turn this . sub-soil up, exposing it to the a. ton Of the air. sunshine heat. cold ? and moisture. il will soon become
 soil Other things being equal. the
 finer the particles of any soil, tht
 more fertile $ that soil Since soi Lis the decomrosed surface of the
 Earth, the deeper this deeompost
 ton. the deeper the soil and the : better for the plant expected to bt
 grown. Soil may contain plant foof l locked up so that plants cannot ust : It. Since water is the great solvent
 of plant food and it's only carrier the plant food must be finely pulver
 ized and dissolved in the moisture : of the soil Then the plant can as similate it's food from the soil so
 luton just as the tissues assimilatt
 food from the blood Deep plowinf , should always be done in the Fal Z Prepared by Robt NJ Hutchins t and Winter
 - Deputy Commissioner.
 Issued by authority of Clay Sloan
 Commissioner of Agriculture.
 "I suffered habitually from con