The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1913-03-26
Deep Flowing
(By H. Crane)

10Y "A. SAohCJ
The old method OIL blowing sUa
Two or three inches and increasing
the depth a lew inches each yea.
Tor u number OF years Is IaII-
ure because it is too expensive and
TOO slow. Deep blowing and u NIX
ing OF the Top and bottom soils Is
the only method that Will Dr.ng
quick and sure returns. especially
in the semi-arid regions. This has
Oeen demonstrated time and again
IN the vicinity OF Denver-by h. X.
Parsons on his dry ranch near Par
ker during a period of eighteen or
nineteen years, and by others.
Experiments made by The Den
yer Suburban Homes and Water
company on their lands twelve miles
southeast of Denver have proven
the value OF deep blowing. On tracts
ranging in size from five to eighty
acres. the yield OF oats ranged from
10 to 80 bushels per acre. where
ten-acre tract. plowed seven inches
deep. the yield was 93.7 bushels
per acre. On another ten-acre tract
plowed nine inches deep the yield
was 97.3 bushels per acre. These
tracts were not irrigated.
On six measured acres plowed
twice and irrigated. the second
blowing eleven inches deep. the
yield was 1875 bushels per acre or
1852 bushels from six acres. almost
one-third as much as was produced
on eighty acres OF land which was
disked.
A further proof of the value of
deep stirring of the soil was OBJ
tanned by this company by the use
of dynamite in their orchards. In
the past four years they have plant
ed 1900 acres of orchards
cherries-and the loss of trees dur
ing three out Of the four years has
averaged from fifteen to forty per
cent each year. Last spring they
planted $4,000 trees. The holes in
which these trees were planted were
shot with dynamite to a depth of
from three to five feet, loosening
up the ground and mixing the top
and bottom soils. giving the mois-
ture a chance to go down below
the roots of the trees where it is
needed. A count of trees of last
springs planting. just completed.
shows a loss of trifle less than
four per cent.
In February of 1912, the writer
met Mr.. George Spalding. inventor
of the Spalding Deep Filling Ma
chine. at the Kansas City land show
and was told by him of the merits
of this machine without believing a
word that was told me. About
June first l decided to try out two
machines on Mr.. Spalding's guaran-
tee that they were everything he
claimed for them. / tried these
machines out behind a small steam
traction engine, but found 1t too
expensive and changed my motive
power to horsesIfour horses to
each machine.
have been a farmer all of my
life, but but this season is the
first time that l have ever been
able to pillow raw prairie the way
/ wanted to pillow 1t and the way 1
thought it ought to be plowed. II
have plowed this fall two hundred
sixty acres of cactus. some of IT.
heavy adobe, from nine to fourteen
inches deep. 1 am still blowing
through from two to four inches of
frost and If the present mild wea-
Their continues. and IL the frost
does not get deeper than six inches
l will continue to pillow all winter.
/ have in on deep plowed land.
two hundred thirty acres of fall
grains and on one twenty-five acre
piece sowed on August 28th. the
roots of the grain are nine inches
long