. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Farming with Atlas Farm Powder not be tolerated when engine tools are used, for turning out is not always practicable. The machines must go straight through to be economical. If this reason is not enough for eliminat- ing the excess moisture, another can be seen by looking over a cornfield for water on the surface. While they are naturally rich in plant food elements, they are in such a condition that none of their fertility is available. Swamp Land nearly always is produc
. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Farming with Atlas Farm Powder not be tolerated when engine tools are used, for turning out is not always practicable. The machines must go straight through to be economical. If this reason is not enough for eliminat- ing the excess moisture, another can be seen by looking over a cornfield for water on the surface. While they are naturally rich in plant food elements, they are in such a condition that none of their fertility is available. Swamp Land nearly always is productive when the surplus water is drained off. Under present conditions in the agri-. This is idle, tax-eating land. The use of Atlas Farm Powder will turn this into a fertile, crop- producing field. instance, those parts that are not well drained. The plants may be 6 feet high on the dry parts of the field, dark green and thrifty, but on the wet areas they grow 2 or 3 feet high only, and are of a sickly yellow color. Gullies are almost as bad as swamps to cut large fields into pieces that must be farmed separately. To turn teams or engines often is to lose time. Patch farm- ing is poor business. Crop costs can be kept down only where the work can be done to the best possible advantage, which means on long, regular-shaped pieces of ground. Gullies represent a loss from erosion as well as in the way just described. The most fertile of the surface soil from the ground adjoining the actual ditch is likely to be carried away in every gully, and this action continues as long as the gully remains. The loss of further soil and fertility can be stopped and econ- omy and convenience of tillage of the entire field can be secured by filling up thegullies and preventing their rewash- ing through proper blasting. Hardpan and clay spots, like wet spots, can be located easily by observing crops any time after they have begun to grow. In dry weather they dry out so much as to stunt plants; in wet
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