subsoiler
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Origin of subsoiler
Example Sentences
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We marked off a plat two hundred feet by three hundred, about one and a half acres, carted a lot of manure on it, and ploughed it as deep as the subsoiler would reach.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by Streeter, John Williams
The alfalfa is the silent subsoiler, and when the whole quarter is seeded we’ll pull that mortgage up by the roots, all right.”
From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.
If possible, before planting, plow and cross-plow deeply, and have a subsoiler follow in each furrow.
From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson
You are a silent little subsoiler yourself, Leigh, doing your work effectually.
From Winning the Wilderness by Marchand, J. N.
It acts more as a subsoiler and will tear and lacerate more roots than is desirable.
From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by Lyon, William S. (Scrugham)
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