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plowing is injurious to the physical condition of the soil, since 
it makes it compact and allows 4& rapid evaporation of mois- 
ture. When the weeds are turned under later in the spring, 
they destroy the capillarity between the furrow slice and the 
bottom of the furrow. 
The necessity for cutting stalks, discing, plowing and har- 
rowing the corn ground—all within a short period of three 
FULL DISC HARROW WITHOUT TRUCK 
A popular dise in Illinois 
or four weeks—has Puoue ne about what the farmer calls ‘‘the 
rush of spring work,’’ but there is no way to eet around it 
if one expects to do good farming. 
A great many agricultural writers (not many of them 
active farmers, however) advocate eight hours as being all 
a man and team should be made to stand in the field. This 
may be all right from an ethical standpoint; but every farmer 
