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Horace and Virgil Ames's Statement. 



SUBSOILING. 



The soil on which we experimented in subsoiling, for corn, 

 is a hard slate, a little inclining to clay ; the subsoil similar. 

 The ground was ploughed seven inches deep, and subsoiled six 

 inches, on the 7th and 8th of May ; and on the 19th and 20th, 

 it was planted. It was cultivated and manured alike ; in fact, 

 treated just alike, except the subsoiling. The difference in pro- 

 duct was four bushels shelled corn at harvest time, say 1st 

 November. 



There was quite a perceptible difference in the cultivating 

 that which was subsoiled and that which was not, the subsoiled 

 appearing much the lightest. We expect to be benefited in 

 the after-crop, as we think the effects of subsoiling will be 

 somewhat lasting. 



We think that two dollars per acre would be a fair compen- 

 sation for subsoiling common greensward land ; as far as our 

 trial went, it was not harder work to plough the subsoil than 

 the sward above. 



Benjamin HoharCs Statement. 

 I ploughed one acre of ground on the 1st of May, and sub- 

 soiled one-half of it. Put on the whole, twenty-five ox-cart 



