PLoWING FoR WHEAT.
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But few farmers are willing to undertake the
purchase and use of the subsoil pillow, but all may
adopt the practice of deep plOsoimg by the erdna.
ry method. In many parts of the country, the
soil may be much improved in its wheat-rasing
qualities, by throwing up and mixing with The sur
face, a small portion of the subsoil In some in-
stances this has been attended with srikingy sue
cessful effects. In others, where the subsoi has
been thrown on the surface, the increase in the
growth of wheat has been almost Incredible. A
neighbor scattered the earth taken from ditch
over the surface for many feet on each side. AT
forwards when the crop Of wheat averaged on the
rest of the field scarcely FIVE bushels per acre. the
portion which had been thus covered with subsoil,
yielded from twenty to twenty-five bushels per
acre In this case, the soil was light and the sub
soil somewhat clayey, and contained small por-
ton of carbonate of lime, efervescing slightly in
acid the operation rendered the soil stronger,
frner, and better adapted to the growth of wheat.
Doubtless large portions of our country might be
thus greatly, and perhaps permanently improved,
by The use of such manure, thus lying in immense
quantities just beneath the surface. But there
may be other subsols not only useless, but actual
ly detrimental; hence the necessity of discrimina-
tion and care. Albany CWIEiUGtor.