Jasper Republican, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1874 — Fall Plowing. [ARTICLE]

Fall Plowing.

Tillers of the soil are often made the butt of ridicule because of their diversity of views and teachings in regard to their calling. Few fundamental principles seem to be settled and accepted as laws of agriculture. It is even questioned whether agricultural knowledge is worthy to be dignified with the name of science. Every man seems to be a law unto himself. One man arrives at conclusions that are wholly at variance with the long practice of his neighbor. A close observer is able to trace in a great measure the causes of this diversity of opinions and practices. Take the subject of “Fall Plowing.” It is often discussed in the agricultural papers, and the farmers are divided in their practice. Some argue that it injures the land and renders it less productive than when plowed in the spring. Others affirm just the opposite. The truth is in a nutshell. The circumstances of soil and weather determine the result. And the man who does not look beyond his reading and beyond his neighbors’ practice for his guide will likely go astray. Heavy, sticky soils may be injured by fall plowing. If a soil has the quality of a mortar-bed when soaked with rain it is questionable if fall plowing is advantageous. Such a soil seems, when disturbed in the fall, to melt together through the action of the snows and rains and become more compact and hard, and does actually receive positive injury, from which it will take twelve monliis to recover. Again, ordinary light soils, which usually are benefited by late fall plowing, i 7nay receive positive injury when the fall of rain is excessive, especially if the rains are driving and beating. If the frosts of winter had not the effect to finely pulverize the soil, which we believe it has on the American Bottom, we can see sufficient advantage for utilizing the obnoxious grasses and weeds by rotting them in the furrows. We would say, then, to the agriculturists of the country, don’t be frightened from the good practice of fall-plowing your lands. Ordinarily it will succeed to your” satisfaction. Failure is the exception. The safe rule would be for every farmer to test the two methods upon his own soil, and thus intelligence will direct his labor. — St. Louis Republican.

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