CHAPTER II. 



PLOWING. 



HE objects of plowing are, to pulverize the soil, to 

 mingle the dififerent portions, to kill weeds, to covei 

 manures, and to keep the surface open and fresn. 



The plowing which accomplishes these objects best, is 

 the best plowing. Pulverizing being the most important, that 

 system of plowing which pulverizes the most thoroughly and 

 the deepest is the best. Gardeners understand this, and where » 

 they wish to raise fine vegetables and plants, they work l^he soil 

 tho^'oughly and deep. Do the same on your farms, if you 

 have been plowing twenty acres four to six or eight inches 

 deep, make it forty acres by doubling the depth of your plow- 

 ing ; it is better and cheaper than to buy twenty acres. It is 

 less work to raise thirty bushels from one acre, than from two 

 or three. We do not mean by this, that eight inches of the 

 sub-soil is to be turned to the surface, but that it is to be stirred 

 up and broken up where it lies, by means of sub-soil plowing. 

 If made with the common plow, the change from shallow to 

 deep plowing would have to be made very gradually, as it will 

 not do to throw more than an inch or two of the subsoil on the 

 surface at a time, but even by deepening one or two inches each 

 year, an entire change would soon be effected in the productive- 

 ness of our fields. Stronger implements and teams will be 

 needed, but the increase of our crops will soon compensate us 



for the outlay. 



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