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The Land-roller

Categories: CONTROL OF SOIL MOISTURE

The breaking-plow is a robber of soil water when used

in warm weather. The air carries the water away rapidly. The air-spaces

are large. The corrective of this condition is the land-roller. It

presses the soil together, driving out the excess of air. Large crumbs

are pressed down into the mass, and are kept from drying into hard

clods. The roller never should be used on land when fresh-plowed in a

moist condition, and it is not needed after fall-plowing, or early

spring-plowing in most instances, but land broken when the season is

advanced should be rolled before much water evaporates.



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