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a family will look for a cheap plow instead of a good one ? Have 

 not our scythe manufacturers learned that they cannot sell a cheap 

 scythe at any price, when a "Clipper" or a "Harvest King" is 

 exposed for sale ? No ! cheap tools are not what farmei's are look- 

 ing for. The demand is occasioned by merit alone. Who buys a 

 mower because it is cheap ? and are not the highest priced rakes 

 almost the only ones sold at the present time ? The plow is no 

 exception to this rule. Farmers want a good plow at whatever 

 cost. So long as the best are not manufactured in the State many 

 farmers will go out of the State to obtain them. 



As has before been stated, the best plow for lands well prepared 

 for tillage is the double plow. When tested by the requirements 

 which have been laid down it is not found essentially wanting in 

 any particular. The work performed by it, when in skillful hands, 

 comes the nearest to perfection of any plow now made. The for- 

 ward or skim plow cuts oif the sward about two inches in depth, 

 and turns it very nicely into the bottom of the furrow. The other 

 plow follows and lifts the remaining portion of the furrow slice 

 and inverts it on top of the sward already deposited. As this 

 second furrow is free from sward, the operation of lifting and 

 turning completely disintegrates it through its whole deptli, leav- 

 ing the whole mass completely mellow. The sward being sep- 

 arated from the main furrow, allows the admission of air and rots 

 very readily. Although the plow cuts a deep furrow, and pulver- 

 izes it so effectually, still it is light of draught. The furrows be- 

 ing divided and turned into two parts, offers less resistance in 

 consequence of being more easily bent and turned than it would if 

 turned in one undivided slice. 



There are other plows possessing a high degree of merit, whose 

 work would be found, upon trial, very satisfactory. Among these 

 may be mentioned the " Deep Tiller" series, manufactured from 

 Mr. Knox's designs by the Ames' Plow Company ; Mead's coni- 

 cal plows, the Collins' plows and the Ilolbrook plows, all possess- 

 ing merit, and all claiming to effect pulverization while turning. 

 Messrs. Holbrook & Small manufacture a swivel plow for level 

 land, designed to turn the furrows all one way, thereby doing 

 away with the inconvenient and unsightly " dead furrow." The 

 working capacity of this plow has been tested by good judges, and 

 is well recommended. Farmers will do well to give it a trial. 

 The Collins' plows are manufactured at Collinsville, Conn., and 

 are a new invention, both in form and material, being cast from 



