Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1871 — Summer Fallowing. [ARTICLE]

Summer Fallowing.

Among really first-class farmers—those who thoroughly cultivate their soil, and carry out a well ( balanced system of rotation by which every acre on the farm is kept progressing in improvement—there is seldom any necessity for losing a year’s use of land by devoting it to a summer fallow. But there are yet a great many farms on which such a course of procedure becomes absolutely necesary in order to properly prepare the soil of some fields to enter into a course of rotation. Very many of the old farms have been for years in the hands of men who, having but little real knowledge of the nature of the soil, and the value of the elements of plant food locked up within them yet out of the reach of plants, never went beyond a mere superficial surface culture in the way of preparation. This carried on from year to year resulted in the soil becoming worn out, as it is called, near the surface, and thus incapable of producing profitable crops of any kind. Such farms can generally be had cheap from their present owners, and to a man of science and energy can be at a small cost rendered again productive, and become almost a mine of wealth. This is especially the case on clayey or stony soils, which, from the constant working of the plow to uniform depth, become case hardened, as it were, i. e., an impervious coat is formed between the upper crust of cultivated soil and the lower stratum of soil on which the sole of the plow runs. It is here that the value of a summer fallow is shown. The plow must be run below the crust, and some of that soil yet unused, thrown up to the surface and exposed for a while to atmospheric influences. The next plowing should go a little and the next after may be so managed by the help of a three-horse cultivator as to thoroughly mix this new soil with that already worked by cultivation. This new soil brought up to the surface requires exposure and manipulation to render it productive, and jn no other way can this be so well done as by summer fallowing, which, in addition to preparing the soil, also admits of the growth of the seeds of weeds lying dormant in the ground, so as to be afterward killed out when the plants are young.— Cor. Country Gentlemen.

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