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First. By beginning early and continuing on 

 through to some date from June 25 to July 20 

 (depending on your location) you will not only 

 retain the moisture that you have in the soil from 

 the fall and winter rains and snow, but you can 

 with proper care add to it practically all the spring 

 rains up to the time of planting; thereby, having 

 more available moisture from the time of plant- 

 ing to maturity than if planted earlier. See Cut 

 No. 44, eight acres of cane grown by August 

 Desens, in the drouthy year of 1914, spring tilled 

 up to July twenty-seventh, drilled in with a 

 common grain drill, 30 pounds of cane seed per 

 acre, photo six weeks later at which time the cane 

 had not reached its full growth by fully 10 inches. 

 This field yielded fully 6 tons of hay per acre. 

 At the time this was planted many adjoining 

 fields planted in early June had already begun to 

 fire. One field across the road drilled in June 

 fifth, was then drying up and made between half 

 and three-fourths tons per acre including Russian 

 thistles. 



Second. If the seed and root bed is made firm 

 and fine in the early work and the surface kept 

 loose and clean of weeds, a greatly increased 

 amount of available fertility will be accessible 

 to the rootlets of the young plants. As previously 

 outlined, this coupled with warm soil and a fine, 

 firm, moist seed and root bed will promote an 

 exceedingly rapid growth of the plant, and a 

 quick grown plant is more tender and has less 

 crude fiber. 



Third. By delaying seeding until some date 



