DEEP PLOUGHING FOR OATS.
On the Iron Mountain Tail road demonstration faun at Hope, Ark , oat land ploughed four inches deep yielded but 23 bushels to the acre, while the same land ploughed tea inches deep yielded 77 bushels to the acre This increase results from the fact that deep ploughing affoided a better reservoir for soil water, and dry weather did not delay the growth. In the deeper ploughing a large* amount of moisture came in contact with more goil particles and dissolved more plant food. There was also more spaoe for root development was enabled to secure more moisture and more plant food.
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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 February 1914, Page 4
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105DEEP PLOUGHING FOR OATS. Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 11 February 1914, Page 4
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