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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 364, 19 April 1871, Page 7

A. correspondent of the f Western Rural,' fcti American agricultnral journal, vindicacates subson ploughing in the following terms ■:— "I took twenty- three acres of •igenerally-rolling land, equally well drained iby natual drains or ravines, all of which had %een in cultivation from /thirty to thrrty^'foac years, and pretty, well worn. I isubsoiled eleven acres. ; This portion had never been seeded to grass of any kind to 3ny knowledge— -at least not for many years. The other eleven acres I ploughed •the usual way-j that: is, ; what would be termed shallow ploughing. ,It was all planted about the same time, cultivated as . neffr as could be alike^ with cultivator. No • hoeing w4? done on either piece. I thin k, >both pieces - o£ land had previously .abotit: . the -satoe attention as regards maaure and tillage* except th at the part I did not. sub- ; • »6il had vtjie: advantage of a good still sward of cloverand timothy turned under the. 'Iprecedihgspring, after being seeded three yearis"; The result, was; that JL .took from ; 'i^-parfr-plou'ghed- the- ordinary way, and i :ii6t,subs6iled> but ten bushels to the acr« t>» tfee average 5 while from the part which -was^ubsbiieil;r took thiiity^fiye busliels per acre -as ;aii average.; .', .-. r .,::r/: ; ■.;■;■