The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1912-03-28


stirred iron fall to spring and gets
| more cash of a three acre farm than
| Cne average farmer from 100. He
| says further the Heavens contain
light and lite, stir the earth and you
take vitality in. The STRINGS kills
| loul germs. Every time you stir the
ground more weed seAd Is sproutel
| and killed. Always Cut and destroy
an old sod before turning 1t under.
If turned fiat over it will remain jor
years without decay, and cuts OF the
subsoil water, causing drouth and de-.
stroying fertility. You cannot raise
crops without perfect connection WITH
the subsoil.
/ IRON a careful study OF the above
ideas and years OF experience set
forth, l believe there is better, SAL
er and su"er way Tor the farmers OF
the eastern slope of the Rocky noun
tains to meet the conditions found
n those regions, than has heretofore
been practiced, at the same time it
will reduce the cost of equipment and
reduce the Labor required.
| | have devise" an implement which
can be used as almost universal
tool in the preparation OF the land
and planting the crop. 1t is com
bined cut out disk pillow. disk harrow,
sub rsurface packer and seeder 1t
can be used separately or as units
for horse power or it can be usen
as an engine gang, doing tie piowing
packing and seeding at one operation,
thus avoiding the need OF running
lover the blowing with the engine
To prepare the land for crop with
this implement. for reseeding from
disk harrow. The cutout or cutaway
disk !stead of being smooth cir
Gle is partly cutout around the cut
ting edge having a series o. eleva-
lions and depressions around the
edge, causing it to enter the ground
more easily, cutting the weeds ana
trash better than the smooth circle.
It leaves in it's track a series OF cups
or depressions thus holding the Wa
, ter where it falls for a larger time
, than where It can run away in a
smooth rturrow, thus the moisture
passes more readily into the sub
[ soil. ION Nr. Clarks hillside above
T mentioned the water was held up
, longer for the benefit Of the grass.)
r AS soon as the grain can be re-
r tmoyed from d field the -lrface should
T be chopped with the cutout disk har-
I row, and this should be repeated as
often as can be during the fall, and
= the ground left without blowing until
e spring. AS soor as the surface Is
: dry enough and che Lrost is out II
the spring, repeat the disking ane
\ SO continue until seeding time. The
packer and seeder is then attached
and the machine is changed to I
Gait out disk pillow, packer and seed
err. The blowing, subr1rface packing
and seeding is performed at one op
Grafton. while the land is still moist
The seeder shoes are at the rear ant
at the ceuter between the packe
Wheels The packer wheels being
wedge shape, ne land is packed into
a firm ridge at the bottom and the
seed is planted in the firm grounc
thus giving it good connection witt
tie subsoil water, which Mr.. Clari
SAYS is absolutely necessary for the
growing crop. 1t can readily be seer
that if the seed is planted in loose
soil where the air can reach 1t, the
seed will dry out and not grow.
The same method should be toll
lowed for summer following or where
crops are only raised alternate years
Instead oil turning up loose subsol
with nothing to hold it together re-
ducing it to dust to be blown away
we simply cut and chop the surfac
mixing all trash stubble and weed
with the soil to prevent it from blow
ing, thus avoiding the need OF scat
: tering straw and blowing burrows a.
suggested by Prof. Sheppard. Tn
work is done after seeding time whel
the weeds have we'll started. The!
can be killed out and a new lot o
weed seed covered up and starte'
to be killed out later. l can conceive
Of no more effective device to NEE
all the conditions. To prevent blow
ing oil the soil clean it of foul weed
and germs. Cover the land with
loose blanket, catching and retaining
moisture.
This loose mulch blanket compose,