DO THE WORK WELL.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 602, 13 September 1913, Page 3

DO THE WORK WELL.

No farmer can control the amount of sunlight and rain that falls on bis land; but, by his farming methods be can do a great deal to assist or binder nature in her efforts to yield biru a bountiful harvest. d Speaking in general terms, it may be eaid that the chief besetting- agricultural sin is the desire to cover too much ground. To the average man the tantalisation of unfurrowed acres is so great that be cannot' take time enough to handle properly the area that he already has under the plough. He does not realise as he should the importance of thorough! cultivationAnd often he makes from three hundred acres a profit much less than he could have from two hundred, if better methods were followed. Thorough cultivation will do wonders. Intelligently applied, it will work marvels in weed destruction. The killing of a single crop of weeds often means hundreds of pounds. By thorough and skilful cultivation the soil is broken up, pulverised into j the finest kind of particles po that the warn; air and moisture circulates I ihrouuh it evenly and freely and the j hairy roots of the. plant penetrate it j much more easily. Nitrification ocI curs more readily, and so there is j more available plant food for the j crop. Thorough cultivation helps to warm up cold, damp soils, and. if properly applied it tends to prevent the effects of the parching winds blowing over dry soils. it takes time !o give proper cultivation, but it pays. It takes time to clear) and select feed, but it pays. It takes time to kill weeds, but it pays.

activities th*o.-.--^^s;. : ;''not. forget j that it alwa;,.- ;;a; v '■>> the work ! thoroughly, no matter' if Mr Slip- \ shod, who lives on the next section, does get a few more acres under crop. It ia not the number of acres worked \ so much as the net profit on the year's \ operations that counts in the long j run, JNor'west Farmer. c™Si