Carrizozo outlook. [volume] (Carrizozo, N.M.) 1910-1945, 1916-01-21
BENEFITS OF FLOWING
Best Time for Breaking Is Late
Fall or Early Winter.
In Average Case II 10 Better TO PIow
a Little Too Deep Than Too shaI.
low-Work Must Be Performed
With Some Judgment.

In this arid region tho best time TO
do the breaking is In the winter when
the ground In not frozen and Is reason
ably moist for the work. The advnn'
tagos OF early winter blowing are that
time can well be spared for The work,
the days are cool on teams. and extra
blowing done now will better equalize
labor OF the year and prevent the ne
cessity for rush IN the spring, when so
many different things are crowding In
for attention, writes Henry Andrews
IN Denver Field and Farm. Some OF
the land piowed IN late fall and early
winter will not need 10 BIO replOwed
next spring, but II some OF II must be
plowed again the labor will be well
spent. There II seldom m danger
but often much good In stirring the
soil often. In fact the productive ca
paclty OF many soils would be mate
rally Increased by a doYblo blowing
for each crop planted.
But what about deep blowing in
winter or at ans time OF the YEAR, In
the average Ease II Is certainly better
despite what some Of the Washington
experts told us at the Dry Farming
congress TO pillow a little too deep
rather than n little too shallow. How
ever extra deep blowing must be done
with judgment. Some soils will be
greatly benefited while others may pos
slbly be injured by Il. Any soil that
Is full OF humus and Is black and deep
IL benefited by extra deep blowing Mt
any tlmo. Thin soils with only { few
inches OF humus near tho surface
should be doepened gradually Tho
subsoil OF such land Is sterile or near
ly so. II n large proportion OF this
sterile subsoil IL turned up TO the sur
face at one blowing. the fertility OF
the seeded may be diluted or weak
cned unless manure IA applied 10 bring
II In. On thin land the surface hui
mus should not be buried 80 deeply
that terminating seeds and young
roots cannot easily reach II. On such
land whore deep blowing In done, the
furrow should be turned TO stand on
edge rather than turned completely
UNtI W UulN iut lUD HOll Nllu lNaN'
only sterile hardpan at the surface.
At tho time this article Is being
written. the FIRST week OF November, ]
am preparing a field OF thin adobe soil
for plowing. This field has been In
pasture. II is fairly we'll covered with
dropplngs from the animals. II Is now
being covered with n thin coating OF
stable manure Az soon as II Is GOV.
cred II will be disked and plowod about
eight inches deep with four horses To
n two.horse plow, II the draft Is not
too heavy II will be plowed nine OF
ten inches deep. After this thin layer
has been plowed II will be allowed Ia
lie In rough burrows all winter Ia
weather.
Later IN the winter when the ground
Is frozen. stable manure "a to be
hnuled and scattered over the entire
field. In the spriug all Is TO be plowed
over again TO n depth OF about siS
inches. IN this way organic matter
will have been given TO the subsoil
and a considerable quantity Will be
| mixed with all OF the top soil TO sup
piemcnt the humus already there. This
field IN TO be planted to corn mex
spring. An early.maturing variety
will be used and the corn will be 70
moved early for sollIng, 80 that the
land may be further prepared ant
seeded to wheat tho first Of next
September. | will get some spenl
limo from the sugar factory and put
on a layer of II In the spring. The
disking will be deep and thorough, II
order to cut the anu finely and e
mix Il well with the soil to make thu
seedbed OF uniform texture as we'll al
deep and fertile.