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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13479, 26 July 1912, Page 8

The suggestions in regard to cultivation, would, therefore, bo:

(1) Deeper ploughing to increase the area for holding moisture and to encourage deeper rooting.

(2) Early ploughing to get better subsoil packing. More moisture in the ground and better movement of moisture. (3) Early and continuous cultivation to prevent loss of accumulated moisture.

(4) Loose seed bed to hind-er evaporation and minimise crusting.

(5) After cultivation to keep down weeds and hinder evaporation.

No doubt exception will be taken to the above suggestions by many farmers, and the statement will be made that some years ago there was no difficulty in growing turnips, no matter how rough the cultivation. The anr.wer to this is plain.. Most of the best crops were grown on new soil which contained tho accumulated plant food and vegetable matter of centuries. This han been mor© or less exhausted, and now wi\ have less plant food and less vegetable matter (which is a very important factor in enabling a soil to retain moisture), so that the present day farmer has to provide artificially what his predecessors^ found waiting for them.—Exchange.