Show FALL PLOWING SUB SOILING ai stubble tile ut alnee and old farm tho farmers review hn taken the position tant no matter how dry and hard may prove in fall they plowed soon a possible after alio crop h harvested and no matter how unsightly tho job of plowing may leavo it slow hard work it is to bo sure this tearing of dry stubble soil but better put tour horses on ono plow than leave tho work undone no matter how email an area is daily turned over it 1 not really over rightly speaking tor the field looks as if an earthquake h d caused a simultaneous eruption over the antiro surface but tha soil is exposed to tho weather and that is tho main tiling no matter how unsightly the field may appear to tho farmer that likes to see neat work were it possible to explode a dyna mito cartridge upon every square yard of stubble land that has been plowed and cropped year after year tho result would doubtless he marvelously marvelon sly good old worn farm land requires a vigorous shaking up and it would be well could such an active agent as dynamite dyn amito be used for the purpose down south they plant apple 1 in leolea blown out by dynamite and report that trees so planted make as rapid growth as those planted in holes dug with spade the reason for this is simply that the subsoil is thoroughly shattered so that tho roots may ramify in every direction lu search of food the fall plowed stubble broken up when the soil is dry appears n mighty aggregation of hugo hard lumps but by spring these havo disappeared having been weathered down by the action of frost thaw rain etc the soil is now in a condition for spring work that could in no other way have been obtained and so we say by all means plow stubble in fall matter how dry it may be tho fact that dynamite has been found useful in preparing stubborn land foi the reception of trees in tho south ii merely an argument iu favor of subsoil ing and it seams probable that subsoil ing will have to bo dono sooner or later on many of our prairie farms the reason that sub soiling has not been more practiced in tho west is doubtless that land lias osen cheap and plentiful farther west upon which crops could be grown without much work or for fertilizers while the new buyer of the worn land by thorough cultivation and lavish use of manure giai staved off the day when sub soiling will bo necessary today there are many old worn farms which would respond quickly to sub soiling than to manure and the benefits from would bo noticeable ti for years vet the expense of sub soiling la eo great that little of it will bo done for years to come before western landi need tile draining everywhere and lime freely applied would also do the old farms a world of good but sooner or later wo presume that sub soiling will have to be practiced |