The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1868-11-30

daily, and the coming school OF farmers
will turn over q new leaf.
In Virginia we do o great deal Of ploW-
ing in some winters, and much has been or
may have been done this fall. The farmer
who plows deep during this season viii be
surely convert to that mode Of plo"lpg'
He will find his land in better condition LOT
early movement next spring, no ma'.ef
what kind of weather there may DC. no
cannot 90 to an extreme in this respect.
He may put in four horses, and ne WIN nnu
that he has lost nothing, but gained lpa1eei''
nv It. Even in the matter Of surface there
is not great difference between the ar0a
plowed by four horses with one plow anu
the same number with two plows. bu' 'no
area plowed by the four horses with one
pillow will produce more than tnas pio"so
nv the four with two plows. Try IL VINO
may. :,,
Now the land that is plowed deep VIII
absorb more moisture than that winch 10
Moved shallow. The moisture descenos 10
the bed below, and is there held IN reserve
for period of dryness, when it is brought
m by surface attraction. In that way the
crops upon it are supplied and kept green
in season when a neighboring field that
is plowed shallow will burn up. AT the
same time, the growth on deeply-plo"eo
land does not suffer as much from excess
siye moisture as that on the shallow tlelds.
The deep fallow has greater space and ca
pacity for absorption, and the roots OF Inc
crops are not so drowned with wetness as
in the shallow fields. The shallow rlnd OF
plowed land is soon filed to repletlon
with water, and will float away as grout-
inc. leaving the surface bare to the hard
pan beneath. Then again, like q thin cake
on a griddle, it will be heated through
and baked. Not so the deeply-ploWed
land. 1t cannot be SO easily lifted up and
foated away by the water, nor will 1t bake
and burn, and dry up the sources of nutrl-
ment to plants, as the thinly-broken soil
does. But it will maintain condition OF
life and heartiness, and continual supply
of moisture to plants, in drought that will
burn up the crops on the land not so
plowed.
ANY one may readily see that besides the
advantages to the growing crop upon the
deeply plowed land there can be no ques-
ton that such tillage tends constantly TO
the Improvement of the land ltselt--in-
creasing it's fertility, strength, and gent
ality: and such blowing, with prudent sue
eessions and manuring, will increase the
nroductiveness of the land to an almost fabu-
lous extent; while the shallow-plowed land
must ever deteriorate in spite Of manurlng.
The farmer must get back each year all he
puts on it for the fertilizer is gone before
the second.
1t will be great day for Virginia when
deep blowing becomes the rule and the
shallow the exception, instead of the reverse
of that, which we have now. The English
farmer follows the four or even slx-horse
pillow with the subsoiler, which forms in the
earth below the deep furrow Of the four
horse plow o deep subterranean storehouse,
as it were, which more effectually provides
relief for the crops from excessive wetness,
and stores away still greater supply OF
moisture for any unusual interval OF dry
weather that may occur.
Under drainage and deep blowing to
some extent subserve the same useful pur-
pose, though deep blowing is insufficient
where under drainage is demanded. Both
are invaluable in the process of tillagc and
improvement of land, and the farmer will
in no respect find greater compensation for
outlay of labor and means than in their
application to these important expedients
for increasing the productiveness of land.
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