PREPARING THE SEED BED 



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plowing is injurious to the physical condition of the soil, since 

 it makes it compact and allows a rapid evaporation of mois- 

 ture. When the weeds are turned under later in the spring, 

 they destroy the capillarity between the furrow slice and the 

 bottom of the furrow. 



The necessity for cutting stalks, discing, plowing and har- 

 rowing the corn ground all within a short period of three 



A N S F I E l_D^,O H I O , U-S. A. 



FULL DISC HAEEOW WITHOUT TEUCK 

 A popular disc in Illinois 



or four weeks has brought about what the farmer calls "the 

 rush of spring work," but there is no way to get around it 

 if one expects to do good farming. 



A great many agricultural writers (not many of them 

 active farmers, however) advocate eight hours as being all 

 a man and team should be made to stand in the field. This 

 may be all right from an ethical standpoint ; but every farmer 



