subsoiler
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Origin of subsoiler
Example Sentences
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If possible, before planting, plow and cross-plow deeply, and have a subsoiler follow in each furrow.
From Success with Small Fruits by Edward Payson Roe
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 J. N. Marchand
The ordinary plough was to be followed in this case by a subsoiler, to stir the earth as deep as possible.
From The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm by John Williams Streeter
Plants two-year-old trees, in trenches made with plow and subsoiler.
From The Apple by Various
If you are not ready to go to this expense, a subsoiler, following the plow with another team, would put your land in better shape for dry farming or for irrigation than it is now.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson
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