Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-08-19
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! 1t HIS ueeti tt1lt sad that an increase of one
inch in the average depth Of plowing through
out the United States, would produce larger
/ athount OF profit, as compared with present re-
suits, than all the gold received from Califor-
| MA. We beit We in this assertion but we do
not beieye tLst all soils without being previ- 3.
ousy sub-soiied, are fit for this immediate in
! crease in depth. We know that even clay sub
soils, which approach within a few inches Of
| TIE surface, sftet being thoroughly subsoiled,
| become so ameiOrate, as TO be capable of ad-
u ur WITH I G immeli.te surf 4ce soil we ara:
! equally well aware that the sub-soilihg capr6a
be performed with any profit in clay eab-soiiss
! containing excessive amounts Of water; that
/ such Soil must first be underdrained before subj
soling can be pursued with profit, as well as
that sub soiling must precede an increase of
| d2pth in surface blowing. But there are mil
/ lions OF acres capable of being ploughed 20
double dhe depth TO which they have ever re-
ceved an incsion from tool OIL any kind, with
| increased profit. Even in the State of New
| l ork, there are thousands ef acres at this
time, VIII eh have never been ploughed to
| greater depth than four inches, composed of
a loan entirely ready to be dsiutegrated by
surface plOughing 10 the depth of twelve or
fifteen inches with increased profit; and there
are few soils that may not be AT once ploughed
TO an inch OF more beyond The former depth.
| The adage that g. many farmers own another
farm Immediately Under that which they now
cultivate" cannot be too often repeated, and
the iudicious farmer Hhoee will has been so Of
ten quoted, as having informed his sons that he
had buried a sum OF money at a depth of twelve
inches somewhere on his farm, and that they
must find it, improved the quality Of their pro-
duets by the disturbance Of the soil more than
he would have benefited them by the suppos-
| cd legacy by direct bequcathment LIS ma
nure will produce a larger amount of crops in
deeply disintregated sol aud ii is not true
| that the deeper you plough the more manure
You require. 1t is true that the more thorough
ly manure is divided, the greater will be the
| amount of crops Produced and this is more
certainly hrut about by deep than by shallow
! ploughing. III
| No practical farmer can doubt that in deep-
! ly ploughei soils, crops are less annoyed by
drouth aud 10y insects; and if ploughing is use
lul al all, it must be useful precisely in the ra-
ito to the amount of soil disturbed provided
that roots are capable of appropriating great
er amount of soil by lis disturbance. Who
doubts that roots will travel to the depth Of
twelve or fifteen inches, or even double that
distauceH Who doubts that lime passing
down through the soil will rest inert ON the
surface of a cold and hndisintegrated sub-s0i
Who does not know that many farms supposed
to be worn out have been revived by the iu-
crease OF few inches in the depth Of plough
ing? And who will be contcpted 10 use one-
horse plough, skating It through the soil like
harrow with one tooth, and starving on the
continually decreasing product ?-- HOrkaag
Fa1faer.