Year: 1878

much moro than one inch of crude subso;t
should be turned up at one time. 1t is
possible that with fall plowing and liberal
dressing OF some good manure a person
might venture to turn up little mora..ss
kThohnaAss -
by tiie' use Of the subsOifs pl5w, which stirs
but does not turn the subsoil But the
great difficulty is, that i. requires an extra
hand and team to accomplish this, and COM
paratively few farmers are before hand
enough to take the necessary time in plow.
ing season to do it. So that the most prac-
tical plan Of deepening soil, and the one
which most of our farmers will find it easy
and economical to adopt, is that of blowing
little deeper every year until depth of
| ten or twelve inches is reached. Old fields
that have been long under cultivation have
hard pan, very hard to break when the
plow 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
than if the ground was dry. The subsc-
eqnent freezes will loosen the soil and pre-
vent any i'll effects from blowing wet


Lcf Hand Plo,cs.-Whie on the subject
of plowing, wish to say a word in favor of
left hand plows. For many reasons they
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 arc left light and nicc-the
only objection is, that it is somewhat diff
cult to bring the land out right, as you COM
mcncc in the middle instead of upon the
edge. But little experience will overcome
the difficulty and Farn,cr.


aoN1RoNi.:-sS atsxsr.
Jonathan r.. Bass, of Cambria, Niagara
county, has not joint in his body. He
went to bed in 1857 and has never been out
of it since. Ho cannot move even finger.
He 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 twcnty-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
ttumbled him to the ground. The foot COM
menced to swell and got to be almost twice
! its natural size. Stiffness in tho joints fol-
lowed. Now Bass is literally q bone mar. .
There isno 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 we're
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 enor ;h to get food through. In


1860 he became blind His mind is sound,
but he speaks with difficulty.