Jo. 7. 



Application of Manures. — Subsoil Ploughing. 



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3at down by the wind and rain; when, the 

 raw becoming' broken, the sap is then im- 

 3ded in its flow through the vessels, which 

 re already overcharged with half-concocted 

 >od, forced into circulation by the too rapid 

 acay of the manure beneath: the consc- 

 ience is, the bursting of the vessels; and 

 ' the grain ever ripens, a lean, half-formed 

 level is the only product. 



"To show the value of perfect tillage; — 

 field of good land was manured and sown 

 fith wheat; its appearance during winter, 

 jring and summer, was very fine; but 

 •hen reaped at harvest, the straw was soft 

 id the grain of little value. The owner of 

 le field was persuaded to fallow the land, 

 [though he conceived it was sufficiently 

 Ttile, and not requiring such tillage ; how- 

 /er, he had recourse to the fallow, and 

 len sowed wheat again ; the produce amply 

 ;paid the expense, for the crop yielded 

 ore than 48 bushels per acre — a proof of 

 ie superiority of cultivation, over a coat of 

 anure without it. The process had mixed 

 id combined the manure with the soil, and 

 id restored its chemical powers; and there- 

 re the succeeding crop drew from its re- 

 urces, now rendered healthy, in exact pro- 

 nation as it required the food." 

 The foregoing observations are invalua- 

 e — they are so plain that the man who 

 ns, may read ; and they must carry con 

 ction to the breast of every one who is 

 )t blinded by prejudice. I have now be 

 re me, the result of a single extra plough- 

 g and working, in a double crop of the 

 lest turnips. I had well dunged a field 

 r sugar beets, which I planted after once 

 oughing, calculating that I could loosen 

 e earth by means of the cultivator, in the 

 ter working of the crop; but I found the 

 ants so poor, that I determined to plough 

 em up; well harrow and pulverize the 

 nd, and sow it with white turnips. This 

 lid, and have never before gathered a crop 



all comparable to it for quantity and 

 lality; the bulbs are certainly heavier and 

 aser than any that I ever grew before ; 

 id I now perceive the rationality of at- 

 ibuting the superiority of the turnip in 

 igland, to the very careful cultivation be- 

 wed upon it ; the land being ploughed 

 r e times, and repeatedly harrowed and 

 lied, by which it is completely pulverized; 

 id the weeds are encouraged to grow, to 



turned under by the plough; thus ridding 

 e land of five crops of weeds before sow- 

 g the turnip crop. But, " can this ever 

 in" I am confident that it can, and will. 



Jacob Heinzel. 



Allontown, Dec. 20th, 1842. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Subsoil Ploughing. 



Sitesoil ploughing, which has attracted 

 the attention of farmers for a few years past, 

 arul has been attended with successful re- 

 sults, it seems was put in practice in Mary- 

 land, in 1822, as will appear by the follow- 

 ing extract from the American Farmer, ot 

 April, 1823. 



"This is to certify, that in breaking my 

 land for corn last spring, (about 60 acres,) I 

 followed the barshare plough, with a substra- 

 tum, (subsoil) plough, until I had broke about 

 25 acres. I believe the average depth of 

 my ploughing with the barshare, was about 

 five inches. That the substratum plough, 

 worked about seven inches deeper, in the 

 same furrow; making the whole 12 inches 

 deep. That otherwise, in the planting and 

 tillage, the management was just the same, 

 and the land of about equal quality through- 

 out the field. That the corn on that part, 

 where the substratum plough was used, 

 grew about twelve inches taller, kept its 

 colour through the season, and produced 

 at least 50 per cent, more corn. That the 

 corn on the other part of the field, suffered 

 very much with the drought, and fired con- 

 siderably. "Joseph Delaplaine. 



" Montgomery county, Md\, Feb. 18th, 1823." 



It is hoped the above successful experi- 

 ment, together with similar results within 

 the last year or two, in other situations, will 

 induce more farmers to try their hands at 

 subsoil ploughing the coming spring. The 

 trials, so far as they have been heard from, 

 confirm the good results that were antici- 

 pated from stirring the subsoil, without bring- 

 ing it to the surface, as is the case in trench 

 ploughing. The subsoil plough introduced 

 by Prouty, is a very perfect agricultural im- 

 plement, and fully answers the purpose for 

 which it was constructed. He has them 

 manufactured, adapted to one, two or three 

 horses, to suit circumstances. They would 

 be a valuable thing to rouse up a garden 

 with. They are nothing more than a plough 

 without a mould board, rather narrower and 

 higher than a common plough, and can be 

 made by any common plough maker. 



Quere — would not subsoiling be capital in 

 potatoe ground 1 X. 



Wounds and bruises on horses. — Take 

 one quarter of a pound of saltpetre, half a 

 pint of vinegar, half a pint of spirits of tur- 

 pentine; put them together in a bottle, and 

 sh'ike up before using. Apply it to the 

 wound with a feather, three times a day. 



