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 Roe, Edward Payson
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.
Plants two-year-old trees, in trenches made with plow and subsoiler.
From The Apple by Various
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 Streeter, John Williams
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
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