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John Hall jthall at worldnet.att.net
Fri Nov 28 17:43:07 PST 2008


I have heard dad speak of those "mole-balls". I have heard him say they
would use them in wet land to create drainage. That was probably back in the
50's. I think they were running an IH sub-soiler--we still have it.

John

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>  The 25th edition describes deep-tillage
> farming. It shows a single wedge pointed device working at depts of 10" to
> 36"which just is breaking up the sub soil. Behind this wedge is a thing
> called a mole-ball; a torpedo-shaped steel ball which opens a tunnel
> through
> which the water could flow and drain.

> Joe Hardisky




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