The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-03
Thornmgh HnrroMing.

OF all the work done on the farm the
narrowing is the most neglected the
most sighted says the stock Journal
1t is a general practice to pillow the field
and let it lie. large or small, before any
narrowing is done. 1t is usual to see a
field streaked with clover after blowing
and before narrowing. II is impossible to
grow a good crop of any kind Of grain
or grass on clods and TO harrow sown
clods and make the surface mellow before
heavy rains come TO melt and soften
them.
II is important that narrowing be done
as fast as the blowing, or as soon after
that no time is given for the soil to dry
out. Sometimes only a few hours is re-
quired to so dry out the soil that when it
is narrowed the surface is left covered
with small clods and It is impossible TO
get the soil in such a fine state that IS
absolutely necessary to insure the best
results. a good plan is 10 harrow just be-
fore noon what has been plowed in the
afternoon. This prevents drying out and
if the narrowing is well done the soil is
fine and in a. condition best calculated to
produce the best crops.
If the blowing has been well done the
work of narrowing will leave the soil in
the best possible condition to grow the
largest and best crops. The blowing
should always be deep so that the moist
ure of rains and melting SHOWS may be
soon absorbed and carried down into the
earth, where it will be stored for use
when needed at the surface, when il is
brought up by the capillary action of the
earth. If the blowing is deep each season
and the subsoil plowed occasionally--that
Is, once in ten years-the> narrowing
should be such as to make the soil fine as
deep down as it is first plowed This is
INN M a = 40 Of
the plants require a fine and well com
pacted soil to do their best work in as
they go down TO a greater depth than the
blowing is ever done. So if the soil is made
fine as deep down as it is plowed the
roots will find ready access to the plant
food deposited in the soil.
An experiment was once made In the
matter of making the soil fine as deco
as possible. 1t was plowed one foot deep
by actual measurement, and the Acme
pulverizing harrow clod crusher leveler
was believed to be the implement that
would make the soil fine deep down The
narrowing was done until the soil was
perfectly fine, and the result was that 800
to $50 bushels of potatoes were grown to
the acre on this ground so prepared, al
though it was poor soil, being the clay
bluffs of the Mississippi river, and which
had been poorly farned for forty-nve
years without manure.
The thorough and deep narrowing max
ing the soil fine deep down, enabled the
roots of the plants to go down readily to
where moisture can always be found. Con-
sequently growth was promoted through
out the entire season OF crop growth to
the greatest possible extent and the great
est and most benefcent results were Sc
cured. 1t is very important to chose an i'm
plement that will make the soil fine deep
down.
The pulyerizing harrow did the work on
the surface in a most satisfactory way
making the soil very fine, leaving it in
the very best state to receive the seed
Good deep blowing and even subsof plow-
ing may be practiced, but unless the soil
is made fine and deep as it Is plowed the
best results cannot be realized. 1t is i'm
portant therefore to 90 deep with the har-
row TO pierce the soil as deeply as possi-
BILE, and this is one Of the very important
matters TO be attended 10 in growiHs grain
and grass crops; in factali crops grown on
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