Excerpt from Cotton-Tillage Studies on Red Bay Sandy Loam This is caused by the character Of the subsoil as the top 3 to 4 inches Of soil scours readily. Waen the soil is dry and hard, deep tillage tends to break it into large clods Or lumps. With Increasing moisture, the soil tends to pulverize more as it passes over the moldboard until the moisture content is near that of the lower plastic limit, i. E. The lowest moisture content at which a soil can just be rolled into a wire one eighth of an inch in diameter without breaking into lengths shorter than three eig bths of an inch. The soil sticksg to the moldboards of plows and middle breakers3 when the moisture content is above this point. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.