The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1896-02-28

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spring to advantage to the following
crop, provided the soil becomes fully
saturated with water. If 1t does not
then the subseiled ground must be
thoroughly packed by rolling in or
der to force out the surplus of air, in
the water channels, in the freshly re-
arranged soil. Those who subsoil
deep in the spring and expect great
results in the following crop, are liza
bic to disappointment. The subsoil-
ing in the spring should be not over 6
inches below the surface pillow and
the surface should be violently rolled
or packed. There is no danger of
packing the ground so close as to des-
troy the work done by the subsoil
pillow, on the contrary, this packing
of the too loose soil, reestablishes cap
ilarity, whichis broken off in q loose
dry soil. By capilarity, we mean
that power of the soil to pull up
water from below. This is we'll illus
trated by taking dry lump of sugar
and applying water to the base of it,
when the moisture will be seen to rise
up and saturate the lump. We des-
troy this power to pull up water by
lOOsening up the soil, and in the same
manner prevent evaporation by shall
low surface cultivating, through the
dry earth mulch.
Whenever SUBSIDIZED land has be-
come fully saturated, large increase
of crops has always been reported.
and had we space we could name q
large number of instances on record.
In 1895 l raised 437 bushels of early
Kansas potatoes on an acre of subsoil-
ed ground, and after digging, plowed
| the ground and got enough more to
make $50 bushels in round numbers.
have some samples of the crop here
to show you, and you will observe
how the first set or oldest tubers, null
tiplied by producing other tubers in
stead of growing knobs Or projections
as other kinds do. There are q very
few Allen county farmers that know
that the early Kansas potato, origin
ated in lola by VIM. Hawkins, is one
of the grandest specimens the world
has ever seen.
Usually, we raise no corn in the
row in the dead-furrow, or the two
rows near it are poor, but by simply
running the subsoil pillow once in the
dead furrow, will cause that 9th En-
wise unprOductive Through, to p ro-
duce the best row in the field. My
best row of potatoes was in the dead
Through and in corn rows 80 rods
long, the sub-brOke dead-furrough
produced for me in 1895, one more
bushel to its row than the adjoining
rows that the ground was not subsoiI-
ed. This is great discovery. Kan
sas has 81, 318 squire miles or 25,272
farms of $50 acres each. five allow
in 7HlIf sNynf ion hnu
acres and if We can increase the yield
two or one half bushels per acre by
simply sub-breaking the dead fur
row, we will have an increase of g.
527 200 bushels of corn in Kansas
alone, which at % cents per bushel
makes s., 131 10000. For comparison
we have allowed all the cultivated
crop to be recOned as corn, but we
know that corn forms only one of the
many crops raised, but the increase Of
all other crops under the same treat
ment will be propOrtionally the same,
and corn simply serves to most easily
Subsoiling is surely the connecting
links between the BOuntifuI Oliver
and poor suffering humanity. We
are given an abundance of rainfall,
even in the dryest years, and it is
left with us to take care of it and
prosper or allow it to go to waste and
suffer in consequence. If we allow q
large share to run off we have no
right to complain later on when the
crop is pinched by drouth If we
store up the surplus water in the
ground where the rootlets can get at
it, we will always be blessed with q
bountiful harvest. The unwritten
law of nature for eastern Kansas seems
to be:-WhOsOever will, let him come
and partake of the good things of this
world freely. Whosoever has the
chance to store up the waste water,
and does not; SHALL lose what water
he thinketh he has. Prov. 12:11.
The new process subsOil pillow was
invented and put on market by II. B.
Perine of Topeka, Kansas, a poor
and he alone has letters
pantent. All the big and wealthy
have infringed on his pat
ent, and put out ,plows exactly SINH.
lar, thus acknowledging the merit of
the pattern, and paying the inventor
3 high compliment. Any one using
0ne of these iDfringements Is liable to
be made to pay the inventor a roy
atty.
OOOp ouOoOlllHS snOalQ 0OG De at
tempted at first. Three good horses
are sufficient, and one can hire it
done for 81 per acre. The harder the
plOw pulls the more the soil needs
breaking up, so preserve and you will
be rewarded
will liken subsoiling to two flour
pots, one half full of sand or gravel,
5he other half full of hard cement,
with both pots filled up with soil.
Now fill both pots up with water and
The question is: which pot will evap-
)rate out it's moisture content first.
Prof. Milton Whitney, United
States soil moisture expert, in speak
ing of eastern Kansas says: "Where-
aver a drop of rain water flows off of
The plOwed field, is an indication that
he soil is not in a proper physical
condition. Where this occurs in a
Try soil. the main preparation of the
soil should be as deep as possible, so
hat water may be carried down and
.hus diminish the rapidity of the ey-
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