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THE TRUTH ABOUT. SttllUN- DEEP PLOWINtt A'NDaCRUSal The fanner- oar they red Piedmont nills may rest assured Ui&t : he will make no blunder by " subsoillg Ma land deeply. ? . Tnere are plenty of lands all over the country- -oh wWck it would' te a vaste of tim an labor to subsoil, flat heavy land tha& wood; drainage morS than, anything; lej: al deeo sands will not be helped ."by sui soiling. But that sub-salting Isl a, blunder on the. rolling, uplands of tkft South I know is not true. This is no theory with me, but the result of prac tical work with big plows and sub soilers. - . While on level lands deep sub-soiling may not show any important im provement In the crops,their improve ment will be manifest on the aeap re4- hills, because there is a plage. formed for the rains to settle Into, instead of running g8 dom, tha 11& and carrying the soil with them. If the red hills of the South had been kept deeply broken and thoroughly farmed instead of being scratched over, the hideous gullies would be a rare sight and galls would be uri5 known. The man who tells the. far mers that subsoiling and deep plow ing are always blunders, does not know what be is talking about, arid is merely pandering to the prejudices of the farmers, I have worked the steepest of old red hills, and have cured eld gullies while never making a terrace, simply by making a deep bed for the water to sink into and making no furrows around the hill to catch a head of wa ter. I can show today old gullies sod ded with grass, out of which I kept the water by making a deep loose bed for it on either side of the gully and on such steep old hills where the grass had run out to nothing but pov erty grass, I got clover and timothy that were the wonder of the neighbor hood, and no four-inch plowing would have done anything of the sort on that land. I was last winter among farmers who habitually plow eight inches deep. They have gotten there from long experience on their soil, and while in many lands there is no need for deep plowing, this fact does not contradict the fact that in most roll ing lands of a clay or loamy nature deep plowing, and often subsoiling, is a necessity. Talk to a farmer on the splendid lands of Berks, Lancaster and York counties in Pennsylvania about plowing three and a half inches deep, and he will quickly tell you that his crops could not be well grown as they are by any such plowing. In the hilly lands of Central North Carolina, abiiut Raleigh, for instance, the surface soil is sandy and "full of quartz particles, and right under it the clay is as tough as ever formed any where, and clay that has greater stores of plant food than the surface has, a clay so tough that I have had alfalfa roots strike it' and go" off hori zontally. Scratch that sandy surface three and a half inches deep, and the next flood of rain will take it off and a red gall appears. The proper treat ment of the soil cannot be covered by any broad statement that sub-soiling is a blunder. I have tested it for years, and know whereof I write, and always uniformly told farmers on lev el, compact soils and on sandy soil3 that sub-soiling was needless with them, but that fairly deep plowing UP to eight inches will enable their crops even on the flat heavy soils, to stand the droughts much better, if the cultivation is level and shallow after the deep breaking, and that on deep, sandy soils the formation of a sort of hard pan below $h an advantage in preyejp&bftg ' leaching. No Exoerlmeut Station that I hays I ever r.ead after has foui,d 1 on steep lauds anything fes benefrt. The instances reported areH -pa dep level and mellow soils, for &ren the red soil of the Georgia Station la not steep. Any man cultivating hJUs ao steep that team plowmen an4 ploy sometimes slip down hill, wtjtl ude stand the importance of deep break ing ajad Bttsoiiing. It may he need less in Texas, but in all the roiling red hJs of the Southern ujplaixds it is of flrjtal Importance if one wants to keep his soil and keep the mo$sr ture there tttstead of ruflBing away from him and having his crops parched in the shallow plowed soU in 4ry weather. Improvements in agri culture do not go backward, and deep plowlag on red clay hills will become more and more common, and the crops better thereby because of the retea Uon of the moisture. Level planting and shallow and level cultivation will, ere long, become the rule with the cotton farmers who plow deeply. While on the matter of Professor Welhom's article, I will add a word about shredders and scrubs, Shred? ding machiaes may be rusting in some pj&ces, as all farm machinery is let no mm down lazy FExaunm A$m BIUfiiDS ATTACK 3JP TO prepare von 9Bsam:i& vsma 91. Co-oper-at- Meojis. tiooa-D Yot jjq Ulft cottonseed. r ex eteaage thi fo w-itik tk meal. but the hull shredder, will give them far more feed and enable them to feed far more stock, and use their corn to the-bast advantage. - h : . Such cattle, it is well known, will gain weight as fast when well fed as the bepfc, pure bJo9d-ijaa'$; grades, but L did Professor Welbocn aver see one top the market? No- matter qw tnuesj the snb ninsal has gained, his aiut will ba mainly of tallow on the iside, and not the broad juicy loins: that make the well-bjed beef, animals more valuable. I saw once at Chica go a let of serai) cattle that had been fed at the lissourj station. They were yery fat indeed, but they did not bring the price that similarly fat ani mals did simpry because they had not made the valuable cuts that the pack ers wanted, and ceuld not be sold to the buchers who cater to a high oiaSB tiada fat f?lotn. anj porter house steaks. If the stations are to help the ad vance in agricultural improvement they must lead the ivay, not by gen-, eral statements, but by a study of con ditions, for advice given to one man will be totally erroneous when given to another working under different conditions. W. F. Massey, in the Progressive Farmer. WHY CULTIVATE AN ORCHARD? For . the same, reason that we culti vate a hill of corn. We plant apple trees thirty feet afcart, while we plant com three and a hall feet apart, for the reason that the foliage of an apple tree bears the same relation to thirty feet that the foliage of a hill of corn bears to three and a half feet. Also that the roots of the tree occupy the entire thirty feet of space, as well as the roots of corn occupy the three and a half feet. Cultivation is as ab solutely necessary for the one as for the other. Cultivation will give thrift J to either and unthrift without it. To produce a good crop of corn, break the ground eight inches deep and pulver ize a fine seed bed. In cultivating the orchard we break three inches deep only, on account of -roots, and make the same finely pulverized surface. This-bed contains -moisture to the very surface in a dry season. By this kind of preparation and a' fine, level cultivation we retain moisture to the tree-tops during a drought, and con- seauentiv thrift of trees and lartre smooth apples, fit, indeed, for any market, a. mil ox . corn naif culti vated produces small ears of corn. An apple tree cultivated, set in pasture, for the same reason, produces fruit hardly fit for worms. The downfall of thousands of orchards commences when their foolish owners sow them to grass and turn their stock in, and if posiWe, tramp them still harder than they were before. A belt of grass around a tree is about as fatal as a WV around a criminal's neck, espe-: cialiy if it be timothy, the ereat roh- k T.f - UCl Ul UJWIO mi c ecu B r 1UH Vjrl (J W- I LOCAL UNIONS. firaensboro -Trade CountM aeu-C. Benson, president; Vernon F. McRary, ecrery, 1ro Mtml1at4l, R, Wxrfek, ifies- iteH; & U ;s&!etarr, Mete and fotuih WeaesdAr ietitj? ea$ W!th, M tlnftr tit, t&Mb tjr Gw&J. 7ypo4jrapht?ij Union f&M afrtarr. e$p 2t fiondar ch oojth at p. ja . - Q '. fivri building J ' CrAjrXoxd j?rei4WU Xhn fcj. CJb. $n halt pyer Bee fnnO ?o Tw Mai tjodflC' 0Hefet Wednes4Lay nighi 1 044 Fews tal on Fyttev tret. Slt el( Waster; J. G. im$ehaj1L sepre tary; J. Tv Labley, finatel-. I shaU be stiae4 When I awake with Thy iemfa& COMPANY . t f'- ' - ' - - - - i -ir ! i-,-A.U .,-1 ....... ir.;w ; . 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