DRAINING AND SUBSOILING.
Here, aro the results of an interesting farm experiment—results which will follow in most cases in which the tests are made. .A field was divided into threo parts. One part was drained and subsoiled, a second part was drained and ploughed at an ordinary depth, ■ and a third : part was only ploughed.' The crop grown was wheat. The yields per acre on the respective : portions were as follow: — m n s c ' '.'C3 . ej . : Pet Acre. ■ I M a to c o I HI 2 a No.\ of sheavea ... ... '834 894 1092 Grain —lbs. • 1190 1530 1950 StraiV 1 ••• ••• 5450 6700 8223 Drainage and subsoiljng nearly doubled the yield over the quantity from the plot that was only ploughed.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 275, 13 August 1908, Page 3
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