Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, N.D.) 1909-1915, 1912-09-06
THIS FALL MOST. FAVORABLE Ii
.s1 26 YEARS FOR EARLY
.33.. FLOWING. 5. HI III 81 i

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!. Never in the rs years we have
known the Dakotas has there been al
more favorable fall than this for do
ing good early blowing. We have
had an abundance Of n moisture, but
up to the time this article is written
there .at has scarcely been a day when
the fields were too wet to pillow we'll
Z In o. North Dakota at least one-half the
land that will be planted 10 crop next
year should, with the very favorable
season we have had, be well plowedi
by the time this article reaches our
readers. We will venture the predic-
ton that if the. reader will stop and
think, he can locate some farmer in
his locality who has more than half
Of his fall blowing already done.
/ And we will venture further than
that. ~ The man who has the Y most
fall blowing done in your locality is,
the man who is growing the best
crops in that locality. sI, nh, lE4,;. 4. s!f,
. Flowing that is well done-all Of
the trash turned under and covered
by the time this issue is mailed is
not at all likely to be troubled with
cut worms next spring. The man
who has done this will be almost Ger.
tain to have gotten the stubble and
trash turned under before the egg
was deposited on it. If he did so he
will not have any cut worms next sea.
son. .sT.; ST. %fEl ys .St +: ,.2yi
And he has done more than that.
He turned over a moist soil. The mois-
ture added weight. And the weight
will cause it to settle rapidly. Every
rain since has helped settle and com
pact it. A lot of weed seed that he
turned under will terminate this fall
and be killed by the winter. He will
have cleaner grain next year. He will
have a compact seed bed in which to
plant his seed next spring. Nature
will have made the connection be-
tween the furrow slice and the, sub.
soil and there will be capillary mois-
ture to feed the plant /. IL: ss.a.:. az.
In fact fields that have been well
plowed before this date are pretty
certain to produce about as good
crop next season as though the . X
been summer-fallowed or planted tc
corn or potatoes. ~ ',.s~' s-=2 ':z. !.
|, And all because nature has more
time and opportunity to do her part
in the preparation of that seed bed
and am in destroying weeds :...5 IA }.:s.
Not half as many weed seeds ma.
ture on land that was plowed in Aug
ust as will mature on land that viii
not be plowed until the middle of Sep
Itember Il, 4 3 81
There is some question in some of
our ii territory as u to wether Or not
fall blowing is advisable. :. Seasons
vary but on the average we say I'M
hesitatingly that fall blowing well
done dor is very very desirable in fact
an absolute necessity to the success
full growing Of grain crops. RI .35.5. ri,
But we do not mean by that to en-
dorse winter blowing. BY winter
blowing we mean blowing that3is done
50 late in the fall that it does not com
pact we'll, before spring seeding has
to be done; blowing that lis not done
until after all Of the weeds that come
into the stubble have matured their
seed; blowing that is done SO late that
none Of that seed terminates until the
next SPRING blowing thu. is left lay
ing on top OF a blanket Of stubble and
trash to dry out and blow during the
winter. .$5s3 SE Il
Winter blowing as we have termed
lit. is almost never y a real success.
EARLY fall blowing almost always is.
DO II Now.
Keep the ploWs going for the next
Is or. 20 days unless you can finish
sooner than that. :5s.5. 555s.
81 Plow it just a little deeper than you
ever have before. .93z ss55s5 IS
Turn all Of the soil over. In other
words, do not turn twelve inches and
cover four.
Turn all Of the trash und Do not
leave q. row of stubble and weeds
sticking up from the edge of each fur
row slice as You turn them.
Keep everlastingly at it until Sep
TENDER Goth. s,:
| The threshing, if you have stacked
your grain, will wait and the grain
will be better and you will get more
lof for letting it wait. s:.s 81
But fall blowing will not wait for
anyone If the best results are Ito he
obtain ed.
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