subsoiler
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Origin of subsoiler
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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 William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
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
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
They should be thrown out as deep as can be done with a plow, then followed by subsoiler twelve to eighteen inches deep.
From The Apple by Various
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 John Williams Streeter
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