Working Wet Soil.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 254, 31 October 1906, Page 9

Working Wet Soil.

The lirst pop. 1 would say, don't do it. WliyV Because there is always danger that by doing so one will jeopardize his crop for the esasou. And y-ei a great many farmers are iv such a hurry to ye-t through with their seeding that they do often harrow the ground and even sow the seed when the earth is heavy, with .water. I have before now seen men harrowing when their horses came to spots that were so soft that they went iv up to their very and the men themselves who drove the leains needed rubber boots on to go through themselves, and then they were likely" to gee stuck. Hut when men follow this up with thi' seeder when the ground Is so wet that the wheels and everything else is loaded with mud. it surely Is time to cry aloud and spare not. Not only docs the man wlin makes it a practice to work his farm wheu wet run thy risk of getting poor crops; be injures his land for many yesirn to come. Tbc sun will come out and bake the earth as hard as the bed of n road, arid nothing can or wil] grow there fnr a long lime. Thu loss is a most sefcious one. 1 know it seems hard to sit by and wait for kind t<i thoroughly dry off iv the spring of the year. I have been ihere myself: often. But it is 1 lie best way. It is the only way one can be sure of tettiug a crop anif of leaving his land In a reasonable condition for the. future.—E. L. Vincent, in au exchange.