The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-10-11

other land on each side OF 1t that
was plowed in the usual way. DO
some thinking about this matter and
see what kind of a crop you would
raise on the deep blowing and on
the ordinary blowing. (Do the deep
blowing only once in ten years.
Then after you have reached conclu-
sions as to that matter, consider
what kind of crop you would raise
on both kinds of ground on the sec
ond year, blowing it in the usual
way never again using the deep plow
for ten years. How do you think 1t
would affect irrigation and moisture
of the crop on the deep blowing the
second year. If the beets grew eight
inches long on the shallow blowing
how long would the beets grow
where plowed six feet deep one
year and then shallow? How would
that WORK OF blowing compare with
what it was before it was ever plowed
so deep? What do YOU think would
be the effect on the grain crop when
it was planted to grain? The visible
roots, the ordinary roofs OF grain
reach down only few inches, but
the fine roots, like cobwebs go down
several feet If they can penetrate the
sub-strata. How do you think 1t
would affect your grain crop after
having raised two or three crops OF
wheat on the deep blowing and have
the ground plowed to a depth OF
six feet and all filled with the cow
web roots of the sugar beet, to plant
grain on it and have all that mass
of soil and fertilizer six feet deep
for the roots of the grain to pene-
trate? Then when you rotate it with
potatoes or red clover or alfalfa or
all of them, how do you think 1t
would affect the irrigation, the fire.
quency of irrigation, mean, and
the conditions of moisture, to have
that mass of mellow soil six feet
deep to store moisture and for these
roots to penetrate. What kind of
crop do you think you would get
and how much less trouble would
it be to keep the supply of moisture
right than it is on the shallow plow-
ing? You know how quickly the
ground gets dry and baked and how
promptly the crops stop growing on
the ordinary blowing as soon as 1t
reaches certain degree Of dryness.
If your ground had once been pull
verified six feet deep do you think
there would ever be any such stop
page of growth due to the condition
of moisture reaching that certain
point beyond which it could not 60
and keep crops going? The mass
of pulverized soil penetrated with
roots six feet deep might keep your
crops in a healthy growing condition
all summer with fewer waterings
than you usually give them and you
know a crop does not grow quite so
fast just while the water Is on the
ground and during the period that
it needs water and does not get it.
AS l said before have never yet
found man connected with any of
our agricultural institutions, who
any sympathy or belief In
my scheme for deep blowing. But
still believe in the six foot blowing.
think the four foot blowing would
be very fine. I think two foot plow-
ing would be good. There are q
good many things would like to see
given trial besides newspaper con-
and the six foot blowing,
the four foot blowing and the two
foot blowing are some Of them. OF
course, am sorry the professors In
the agricultural industries do rot
believe in it and am sorry the farm