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SOILS 



face of the earth. Between them, water is sent rapidly 

 and constantly into the atmosphere, away from the soil. 



If your lands require water protection, deny it not. 

 Maybe your lands are in stubble, perhaps in wheat or in 

 oats. You wait for weeks or months before you plow and 

 prepare the seed-bed. But now it is fashionable (and 

 good practice) to treat the land largely from the stand- 

 point of moisture control, and at least give water more 



DOUBLE-DISKING THE LAND 

 This sort of tillage pays. Water is both admitted to the soil and held 



consideration than its previous allotment. The old plan 

 gave a minimum amount of rain to the soil and took a 

 maximum amount of water out of the soil. The new plan 

 supplies a maximum quantity of rain to the soil and 

 allows a minimum quantity only to find its escape. 



Have you ever tried disking the stubble land, tried disk- 

 ing just after harvest? You get these results: water is 

 stored and held ; and when you plow a little later, you 

 find that the plow works differently to what it has been 

 doing heretofore. Now it is more to your liking : it pre- 

 pares the land; it leaves it mellow and fine and open; it 

 gives the land the ideal tilth. 



