The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1878-05-31
DEEPENING OF sOILs..JApAN pEas

NE DEEFENlNG OF sGILs..-JAPAN. PEAS
"nen hrst came in possession of ~,
.arm commlttcd radical error in nlougb
ing too deep. The former cult;v,,ion b.,
scarcely reached the depth of five ;ncbas
a"a commenced by ploughing from min,
TO ten inches. The result Of tnrning nm s(
much OF the subsol at once. was TO mil,
'"c ,ic'u almost barren for the time. That
year experience convinced me that M,
mucn more than one inch of crude subso;
should be turned up at one time T. l.
possible that with fall plowing and liberal
uieSs,nS OF some good manure person
mt .shs venture to turn up little mora. 2 9
Ny the' use OF the subsOI plow, which stirs
but docs not turn the subsoil. But the
great difficulty is, that it requires an extra
rand ana team to accomplish this, and COM
paratlvely few farmers arc before hand
enough to take the necessary time in plow.
ing season to do it. So that the most prac-
tlcal plan of deepening SOIL and the one
which most OF our farmers will find it easv
ana economical to adopt, is that of plowinc
q little deeper every year until depth of
ten or twelve inches is reached. Old fields
that have been long under cultivation have
a hard pan, very hard to break when the
Piow has Sided along for many consecutive
years. Such lands are best broken in the
winter, when TOO wet to plow at any other
time. The plow may then be readily forced
INTO the hard pan, and the labor both of
team and plowman will be much lighter
lhan II the ground was dry The subsc
<quent ireezes will loosen tho soil and pre-
vent any ill effects from plowiny wet.
Lcf Hond Plo'cs.-Whilc on the subject
OF plowing, wish to say word in favor of
lett hand plows. For many reasons thcv
are to be preferred to right hand plows.-
The lead horse walking in the furrow makes
the cut OF the plow uniform and prevents
the little crooks and hooks so common in
lands plowed with right hand implements
Another very decided advantage is. that
the horses can turn hard all the time and
never tramplc on the plowcd ground, and
the hcadlands are left light and nice-thc
only objection is that it is somewhat diff.
cult TO bring the land out right, as you COM
mencc in the middle instead of upon the
edge: But a little experience will overcome
the d'ficulty.-Plantcr and Farmer.
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! -ss.1eNIAN-oE4ReN,-eE eEswrsK
Jonathan r.. Bass, of Cambria, Niagara
county, has not joint in his BODY. lie
went to bed in 1857 and has never been out
or 1t since. lie cannot move even finger.
lie ran as captain of canal boat between
Buffalo and Rochester in 1850, and was
getting stiff then. When he could not do
any work he had to quit canalling, and then
went to bookkeeping. His joints kept get
ting SITTER and sitter. The doctors could
DO him no good, and at last he had to give
up, and, after twenty-one years. he has been
abed at the farm homestead of his family,
between Lockport and Lewiston. His trou.
BILE commenced with pain shooting
through the bottom of his right foot, that
tumbied him to the ground. The foot COM
menced to swell and got to be almost twice
its natural size. Stiffness in the joints fol-
lowed. Now Bass is. literally bone man.
There IS no more bend to his legs, arms and
body, than there is to marble statue. His
arms are as fast to his sides as if they were
nailed there. For eight years after he went
to bed he could move his arms, but the
joints finally became solid bone. They
have to feed him with spoon. His Jaws
are as immovablc as his other Joints
There is space between his teeth that is
just wide enough to get food through. In
1869 he became blind. His mind is sound,
but he speaks with difficulty