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that will open the turf a little is a benefit, and muck certainly is 

 beneficial iu that respect. 



Question. How does gypsum work ? 



Mr. Gold. Gypsum is advantageously and universally employed 

 upon our best farms. A slight dressing is used every year. It 

 costs us about $8.00 a ton ground, delivered at the mills, and they 

 put on from one to three bushels per acre. It brings in clover, 

 especially. 



With regard to plows, I have used the plows that have been re- 

 ferred to, almost all of them. Mead's Conical Plow, which is made 

 at New Ilavon, seems to possess all the advantages of light draft, 

 perfect pulverization, and easy management, and my men and my 

 neighbors have given it their unqualified approval in these respects. 



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COLLIlSra' PLOW, (With Revolving Coulter.) 



I have also used the Collins' plow. The advantages claimed for 

 the cast-steel plow are, that it will keep itself perfectly clean and 

 bright in any soil. No matter hOw mucky or tenacious the soil 

 may bo, it scours itself bright, and keeps itself so. That is fully 

 admitted to be true. I used to be afraid that it would break ; that 

 a cast-steel plow used among our rocks, with a strong ox team, 

 would be readily broken, for the point is quite sharp and slender; 

 but two years' experience with one enables me to say that I fear 

 very little danger from that cause. It has done many weeks' ser- 

 vice where there Avere sunken rocks and careless plowmen and 

 heavy teams, and the point has not been damaged nor the plow 

 broken in any way. If it is broken any blacksmith who under- 

 stands the management of cast-steel can draw it out and sharpen 

 it, or put on a new point of cast-steel. 



