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effectually seals the land so that no moisture can 

 escape. Of course if several teams are plowing one 

 man may follow steadily with tools for fitting the 

 land. 



Save the moisture. It is wise not to sow the 

 seed before there is plenty of moisture stored. In 

 this connection the reader should study the preced- 

 ing advice upon summer seeding. Save all the 

 moisture you have and accumulate as much more 

 as you possibly can before sowing the seed. And 

 yet one can not safely delay sowing longer than 

 till about the 10th of August, and if it can be sown in 

 a good seedbed with sufficient moisture by the first 

 of August all the better. The time of sowing is a 

 local question. In Louisiana one can safely sow 

 the last of October, yet north of the Ohio River late 

 July and early August sowing is much safer than 

 any later sowing. 



Inoculation in Advance. It is well to inoculate 

 the soil for this fall seeding, and the reader is asked 

 to note with care what has been written elsewhere 

 on this subject. One way of getting this inoculation 

 in a wheat stubble is to sow some alfalfa seed in 

 the wheat in March. If 5 pounds are then sown and 

 harrowed in with a sprinkling of inoculating earth, 

 say 100 pounds to the acre, and the soil and seed 

 mixed together, it is probable that a fair growth of 

 alfalfa will result and the inoculation spread 

 throughout the whole land. Then when the land is 

 plowed again and the young alfalfa turned under 

 the inoculation will be spread. Quite a little benefit 



