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PREPARATION OF SOD FOR 

 MILO. 



Milo may be planted on sod land 

 and successful crops may be grown 

 if it is properly prepared for plant- 

 ing. On sod, a seed bed should 

 be made by breaking tbe land, and if 

 there is a considerable amount of 

 gtyss roots so that the sod is rather 

 .-tiff, the best preparation is obtained 

 by rolling the sod down until it is 

 perfectly flat, when it may be Jiar- 

 rowed to produce a soil mulch at the 

 surface. The milo may then be 

 planted with a disk drill, stopping 

 up the drill holes which are not de- 

 sired. If the sod is very thin, that 

 is, if there is not much turf in the 

 sod, it can best be prepared by thor- 

 oughly disking and harrowing until 

 a seed bed is formed. 



Both of these methods, under pro- 

 per conditions, promise success, as 

 both have been successfully practiced 

 in different localities and under dif- 

 ferent soil conditions. 



ALVIN KEYSER. 

 Colorado Agricultural College, Fort 



Collins. 



When the people at Washington 

 get down to brass tacks and talk sen- 

 sibly about this conservation business 

 we are ready to go into camp with 

 them. In a recent message to con- 

 gress President Taft said: "The prob- 

 lem is how to save and how to util- 

 ize; how to conserve and still develop 

 our natural resources." This an- 

 nounces a policy of conservation with 

 which the west is entirely satisfied. 

 While the bug has gone out through 

 Pinchot's press agents that the west 

 is opposed to the conservation of 

 natural resources, as a matter of fact 

 we are in entire accord with any 

 sensible policy. We believe in econom- 

 ically caring for that which forms 

 so large a part of the wealth of this 

 country. Any policy which will save 

 and at the same time utilize our re- 

 sources, which will conserve and still 

 develop, which will utilize them and 

 still prevent monopoly, is a policy for 

 which the west will stand until the 

 cows come up. We desire, however, 

 to have something to say about the 

 modus operand! of all this conserva- 

 tion business and will always stand 

 out for the right of the" states to 

 have something to say about it. 

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The above illustration shows the two traction outfits owned by J. R. Smith 

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 plowed after it was too late to seed. The Modern Farm Horses were then put 

 under shelter and Mr. Smith departed for the "Sunny South" to spend the 

 winter. Such is modern farming. 



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