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Show laUolllaa tor tlrata. It will not, as a general thing, pay to subsoil for grain crops. With the low price of the cereals the Increase must be very considerable to pay cost of tbo extra work. The work of sub-soiling sub-soiling Is very great, tho aubsolltr having hav-ing to bo hauled by from four to atx hones according to construction of tht dbsoll. There are however tome totalities to-talities where aubiolllng for grains rill nsr. Thlt will denend on a rood aany clrcumstsnces that cannot bt lolnted out specifically. For In-jtanco In-jtanco there are subsoils tbst are not lard to stir up. There are farms there the arrangements are such that the men and horses have Idle time, ind In such cases the subtotllug will tot be vory expensive. Then too we oust make a distinction between the ectlons ot country where the rainfall ll fairly good and the sections of country where, the aridity la to great that there If little or no water to hold. It Is believed that aubsolllng Is more sttcctlve where tho rainfall Is fairly food than where the rainfall la very (light, This Is because the subsolllng oiaku It possible for the ground to bold more water and a part of the keavy precipitation! li caught and held In the reservoir that would otherwlio run off, In the cmo of stml-arld lands the water aeldont falls In such quantities quanti-ties that the toll cannot retain IU |