. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. CLEARING AND BREAKING 295 ~ Clearing and Breaking.âWhen peat and muck lands are covered with tree growth, the problem of clearing and removing the stumps is comparatively simple, since the stumps are usually shallow rooted and the soil is light and loose.^ The cost of clearing varies from fifteen to thirty dollars per acre, and sometimes as high as seventy-five to one hundred dollars per acre. Rank grass, sphagnum moss and brush can best be eliminated through burning. The most desirable ti
. Productive soils; the fundamentals of successful soil management and profitable crop production. Soils. CLEARING AND BREAKING 295 ~ Clearing and Breaking.âWhen peat and muck lands are covered with tree growth, the problem of clearing and removing the stumps is comparatively simple, since the stumps are usually shallow rooted and the soil is light and loose.^ The cost of clearing varies from fifteen to thirty dollars per acre, and sometimes as high as seventy-five to one hundred dollars per acre. Rank grass, sphagnum moss and brush can best be eliminated through burning. The most desirable time to accomplish this is. --J Fig. 194.âTwo twenty-four-inch bottom plows turning tough marsh turf. (Wisconsin Station.) \ 'â '' when the rubbish is dry but the soil wet. This is usually done dur- ing late spring and early summer. Peat should never be allowed to burn except when there is a surface layer of loose, spongy, raw peat. In such a case conditions should be controlled to prevent the burning of the lower stratum. Should peat soil catch fire, the best method of putting it out, unless soaking rains come, i$ to dig an open trench around the fire down to moist or wet earth and let it burn itself out. Wild turf on marshes is usually very tough and difficult to break. The use of heavy, wide-bottomed breaking plows gives best results ^ When peat and muck lands supporting tree growth are drained by good open ditches, the trees soon die. It is desirable to leave the open ditches three to four years to allow for the settling of the peat. The ditches are then cleaned out and the tile laid. During the settling period the trees may be cut and the stumps Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Weir, Wilbert Walter, 1882-. Philadelphia London, J. B. Lippincott company
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