. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ring or cleaning. Double furrowploughs of an improved form are manufactured by Eansomeand May, of Ipswich. SUBSOIL PLOUGHS. The practice of subsoiling has been productive of perhapsgreater immediate benefits to the farmer than almost anyimprovement that has been introduced of late years, forsubsoil ploughing is the breaking up the stratum of earthimmediately under that which is annually ploughed andprepared for the growing of crops, and upon which thehorses have, ever since the ground was first cultivated witha plough, been walking, so tread
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . ring or cleaning. Double furrowploughs of an improved form are manufactured by Eansomeand May, of Ipswich. SUBSOIL PLOUGHS. The practice of subsoiling has been productive of perhapsgreater immediate benefits to the farmer than almost anyimprovement that has been introduced of late years, forsubsoil ploughing is the breaking up the stratum of earthimmediately under that which is annually ploughed andprepared for the growing of crops, and upon which thehorses have, ever since the ground was first cultivated witha plough, been walking, so treading it into an impermeablemass, through which the water cannot pass but with diffi-culty, or the roots of the plants force their way. If sub-soiling be well done it will generally repay its cost the 50 SUBSOIL PLOUGHS. first year, as the soil broken up has through time beeureceiving much of the fertilising matter laid on above, anda heavy crop is sure to be the reward for the expenseincurred; but I would advise all persons about to subsoil Fig. land, especially if there be a pan or crust to break up, toemploy some person whom they can trust (the farmer him-self ought to do it) to walk beside the plough the wholetime the operation is going on, and continually with a spadeexamine the soil, and see if it be effectually broken this be done, I am sure the work will not be properlyexecuted. I have tried all sorts of men at the subsoilplough, and never knew an instance where the ordinaryploughman would keep the plough down, if he could avoid it;in nine cases out of ten he believes the whole operation to bea new-fangled idea from which no benefit will be derived,and if his horses are good, and he takes much pride inthen sleek condition, he will certainly sacrifice the efficiencyof the operation for the benefit of his favourite master must never leave the plough, and must alwaysinsist that the depth decided on be kept, never mindinghow much the man complains o
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