The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1899-12-29

III Is loose SOIL, not suO-paCked, that
will melt and run together as | have
shown. have shown that to force
the fifty per cent of surplus air out
of the freshly plOwed soil by the sub
packer put the soil in exactly the
same condition for plant life that the
stubble field was in before plowiHg
and who ever heard of stubble field
pudding? On the contrary 1t will
not absorb enough water to cause one
to slump down six or eight inches,
except where honey.combed by moles
but will take in all the water 1t needs
and allow the surplus to drain out
below or run Off the surface without
washing.
Prof. w. J. Spillman, of Washing
ton Experiment Station, Pullman,
says: Through every growing plant
a stream of water is constantly flow
ing, beginning at the roots and pro-
ceeding upward to the leaves, being
lost by evaporation from the surface
of the leaves. The life ofthe plant de-
ponds on this stream. 1t brings the
plant its food, and the amount of food
the plant can obtain depends among
other things, on the amount of water
that must flow up through plant
and out its leaves.
Moisture exists in soil of uniform
texture much more evenly than in
uneven texture soil. II moisture be
lost from the surface, other moisture
comes up to it's place. This force acts
much more strongly in well COM
pacted, fine grained soil, than in a
loose one, also in moist soil, than in
a dry one.
Fall blowing will dry out If left as
the pillow threw 1t and it is liable to
blow away. So much air is In the
soil and so many cavities exist that
complete circulation is established
and all moisture rapidly evaporates.
When fall blowing is sub-packed
there is no such chance for drying
ont, capilarity is readily established
: with the sub.soil and the whole mass
, is moist, thus holding the surface
soil from blowing away and making
, it impossible for the heaviest rainfall
to pack it, especially at the bottom o
the furrow.
: To incorporate the vegetable matter
: into the soil, does not necessarily
a mean to turn 1t under to the bottom
= of the furrow. To properly do this
}. the two diskings followed by TIA,
3 plank drag will pretty well mix tn,
8 trash up with the surface soil anC
/, when the ground Is plowed properly
: all fine soil is sifted to the bottom o
: the Through while the trash anC
clods are left on top where they ough
q to be. When the trash Is lncorporat
Q ed with the surface soil, 1t catche
q and retains the flow of water, prevent
= ing all washing and enabling the sol
t usual, rotting as quick at the surfac
where the sub-packer has pressed
# into the soil, as 1t would at the bottom
|
u of the furrow, where 1t is liable t
o break off capllarity and greatly in
v jure the crop.
. In my opinion the perfect pillow
not yet on the market, although tn
o disk .plows are greatly superior to tn
o mouldboard kind.
}. About six years ago l had plo'
II made for me by A. b. Perine of Topt
n ka, the inventor of the sub-soil pillow
10 l wanted pillow that will dolthe sam
% work that man does when spadin
g up the garden with the fork. He wi
10 push the fork into the soil and a
y coarse soil will be lifted out with tn
r trash, and shook about on the tines I
W the fork until all sell Is filtere
10 through between the tines.