The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1873-03-12
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Experiments in SubSOIIlng.

S. B. Green, writing to the Rural
san, from BeIlwood, Tenn, gives the
following interesting experiments in
subsoiling:
I'm 1872 I had about twelve acres
Of stubble land which I planted in
corn. I SUBSIDIZED this land in Janu-
airy with two Miller plows. I put
two horses to each pillow. If any
farmer wishes to try this plan, let
him take common Btretchers and tie
knot in the chain on each side of
the hook, and then cut stick SO as
TO draw them to full length. This
will serve to keep the plow from
running too deep, and it will let the
off-side horse walk in the furrow. If
he does try this plan, advise him
to put steady team to the small
pillow lest he break the beam. / like
this plan better than to subsoiI with
the regular subsoil or bull-tongue.
My reason for this is that they leave
the subsoi in the .furrow, aud it is
covered up by the dirt of the next
furrow. And another reason is, to
run one pillow after the other, the lat
ter fitting the fnrrow Of the former,
they pulverize land better, while to
pillow with three and four horses is
very -disagreeable,. and land is left
unplowed very often, and is someE
times broken in. very large eIods.
"But every man thinks his way
best. To talk to some men Of the
cry, is like talking to the stumps and
rocks that infest our fields: SUCH
men are generally blessed with bald
spots and deep gullies.4 Theory, to
thinking men, is indisrensable-4
Union is the thing@.-I rebIsoke this
land about the last of March and
first of April, and SUBSIDIZED It with a
bull-tongue. l checked it four feet
one way and our-ahd-a:half the 9TH
er, with bull-tongue. My object for
this was to leave the grain near the !
surface, SO as to let the young plant |
obey the law of nature It's roots |.
60 down and its top go up. To grow |
a crop Of peas with the corn, after |.
blowing the corn the first time, three /
burrows in row, dropped the peas
in the middle furrow between the /
corn, and covered them with hoo. |
Iplowed the peas three times. 1
took ten barrels of corn per acre
from this land the following fall.
The pasture for hogs and cattle was
fine. There were six kinds of land
in this field: 1st, white oak; I'd.
red cedar; Sd, sandstone; 4th, made |
land by branch; 9Th, wet land;
9Th limestone. \ fine spot for ex-
pertinent Now, to give the result,
1 will begin st the 4th, I did we'll;
5th, better; 9th, best. The red did
not yield quite as much as the 4th,
the. I'd less than the Sd; the 1st least
of all; though think that it was
great benefit to the whole. l.
For those who farm by the moon,
I will give them my experience.
During the spring the hired man in
sisted that l should plant corn ON
the dark from tIrerfull to the new |
of the moon. remarked that I was
not farming in the neon. but on the
earth. While planting, it happened
that some was planted on the dark
and some on the light. The rows
were marked. At gathering time
there was no difference found. I
have heard but little of moon farm
ing from that source since. l think
light has effect on plants, but not in
the way generally supposed by the
farmer. If our farmers would think
less about moon farming. take up |
theory and practice, lay down poll
tics, and 60 to subsoiling their land,
we would hear no more about hard |
times and less grufnbling Of heavy
tax"