Some form a natural mulch when dried, which prevents further water loss.
Anything that covers the ground or loosens the topsoil prevents in a measure the evaporation of the water stored in lower soil depths for the use of crops.
I shall insist hereafter on the advantage and importance of subsoiling orchards.
Where the muck is not easily to be had, yet the soil is thin and poor, I would place considerable reliance on deep plowing and subsoiling in the Fall, and cross-plowing just before planting in the Spring.
Mr. Smith pertinently says: "Horse-power could not give at any cost such valuable work as this steam-power ridging and subsoiling is.
I hardly need add that subsoiling was out of the question, and that six inches was the average depth of his furrow.
If the surface soil is of insufficient depth, it should be gradually increased by plowing a little deeper each year or by subsoiling in the furrow behind the regular turning plow.
Subsoiling will be found advantageous in most cases, as the drainage and general movement of the soil moisture will be improved thereby.
Ennis, "he was fond of a draining and subsoiling system, which he wished to have practised, but which his tenants did not like.
Subsoiling is good, but double-plowing is better in all cases, where you can afford to enrich the surface, after this deep plowing.
Subsoiling is accomplished in two ways: either by an ordinary moldboard plow which follows the plow in the plow furrow and thus turns the soil to a greater depth, or by some form of the ordinary subsoil plow.
While subsoiling results in a better storage reservoir for water and consequently makes dry-farming more secure, yet the high cost of the practice will probably never make it popular.
Whether or not the great cost of subsoiling is offset by the resulting increased yields is an open question; it is, in fact, quite doubtful.
Subsoiling is a very useful addendum to deep plowing; its object is to stir the deep layers of the soil without bringing the earth to the surface.
Subsoiling is most efficacious when combined with draining, but it is of great use without, unless where permanent water is found near the surface.
On the reddish soils that cover much of the South, it has been found, as in growing alfalfa on stiff clays in the North, that where deep subsoiling is practiced alfalfa is not only more easily established, but it also grows with added vigor.
Subsoiling is particularly helpful to the growing of alfalfa on many of the clay soils of the South.
The subsoiling of lands not sufficiently open below will be greatly helpful to the growth of alfalfa.
In subsoiling for alfalfa, usually the more deeply the ground can be stirred by the subsoiler, the better will be the results that will follow.
In some conditions, without subsoiling thus, the growing of alfalfa will not be successful, but in doing this work, care should be taken not to bring up raw subsoil to the surface.
The deep freezing of the ground is often mentioned as a mode of pulverization--as a sort of natural subsoiling thrown in by a kind Providence, by way of compensation for some of the evils of a cold climate.
Let no man imagine that he shall never use the subsoil plow; for so surely as he has become already so much alive to improvement, as to thorough-drain, so surely will he next complete the work thus begun, by subsoiling his land.
I cultivate my orchard bysubsoiling and shallow cultivation, using a disc and Acme harrow; I grow nothing in a bearing orchard, not even weeds.
My land is eastern slope, clay subsoil; I plant 20x28, first subsoiling the row.
Put your ground in good order by plowing and subsoiling at least fifteen inches deep.
Subsoiling has often been recommended, yet practical growers but rarely make use of the subsoil plow in the preparation of asparagus plantations, although the value of subsoiling where the subsoil is heavy can not be doubted.
The theory ofsubsoiling always has been captivating.
Land at plow-depth becomes packed by the tramping of horses upon it and the pressure of the plow, when the plowing is done at the same depth year after year, and in some soils subsoiling has been found distinctly valuable.
Enthusiasm regarding subsoiling comes to large numbers of farmers at some time in their experience, and a great number of subsoil plows have been bought.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "subsoiling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
