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for if so plowed they may be years in recovering 

 from such evil treatment. 



He who is possessed of sandy soils is too often 

 imbued with the erroneous notion that the soils 

 can be safely plowed long before clay soils are in 

 proper condition for plowing. There is as great, 

 if not greater danger in plowing sandy soils when 

 too wet. The author is speaking from experience 

 of years in the plowing of sandy soils. The plow- 

 ing of those soils when too wet, especially when 

 they are short on organic matter content, means 

 that they will pack and become like mixed cement 

 and sand, and so become almost utterly incapable 

 of being put in condition for the successful grow- 

 ing of crops upon them, until they have been re- 

 stored by severe freezing, and filling with green 

 manuring crops and organic matter. 



Farmers, get the vision of proper plowing. 

 Secure the plow that does not belie its name. 

 Plow with sufficient motive power. Plow when 

 soil is in condition. Plow deep. Plow to reduce 

 "dead furrows " to the minimum. Plow aesthet- 

 ically. 



The plow that does not belie its name is the plow 

 of light draft, and one which cuts the deep furrow 

 slice and turns it completely over so that any or- 

 ganic matter being plowed under will be cov- 

 ered beyond the reach of cultivating machinery, 

 leaving the upturned soil as nearly level as pos- 

 sible. 



The "dead furrows" produce crops of stunted 

 growth, and this stunted crop growth appearing 

 too often in our fields, not only reduces the total 



