If fresh stable manure is used, it should beplowed under in the autumn.
If the manure is well rotted, it may be plowed under early in the spring or used as a top-dressing a short time before planting in order to bring the manure to the surface.
What time of the year can cow peas be planted, and can the entire crop be plowed under in time for planting field corn?
These plants are of high forage value as cow feed; also as a soil restorative when the whole crop is plowed under green or when the roots and manure from feeding add to the soil.
If there is moisture enough the alfalfa, plowed under in the fall, ought to be decayed by February, when you could plant potatoes safely, probably, unless your situation is very frosty.
Will you please give information concerning cow peas or the most suitable crop to sow in a hop field for winter growth, to be plowed under as a fertilizer in the spring?
I convinced him that the money will pay a higher rate of interest in phosphate than it would in the savings bank, even if he put it on before manure and clover could be plowed under.
The peas and beans are to be seeded on the twenty acres where the catch crop of legumes is to be plowed underas late in the spring as practicable.
In this way clover equivalent to about three tons of hay could be plowed under.
If the fertilizer is plowed under in the autumn, again mixed with the soil by a second plowing in the spring, it will be decomposed and ready for immediate use by every rootlet in contact with it.
It can be plowed under at once, and left to ferment and decay in the soil.
My own opinion is, that on clayey land, manure will act much quicker if applied on, or near the surface, than if plowed under.
When a crop of clover is raised, it obtains its carbon from the atmosphere; and, if it be plowed under, and allowed to decay, a portion of this carbon is deposited in the soil.
Many fields run out in five or six years and the sod is plowed under.
They furnish large crops of hay or green forage and a good aftermath and sod to turn under as green manure, or the entire crop may be plowed under.
When this stubble is plowed under there is a valuable addition of the plant-food to the upper soil.
In order to maintain a proper supply of nitrogen in the soil the dry-farmer will probably soon find himself obliged to grow, every five years or oftener, a crop of legumes to be plowed under.
The high straw which remains is plowed under in the fall and helps to supply the soil with organic matter.
If the second growth is plowed under, subsequent cultivation of the surface will further aid in completing the work of destruction.
Where an abundance of cool fertilizers has been used, or the ground has been generously prepared with green crops, plowed under, the yield is often large and profitable.
Buckwheat is one of the most effective means of subduing and cleaning land, and two crops can be plowed under in a single summer.
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