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State Board of Agriculture, &c. 



headlands to be turned last, Tliese are not, however, its 

 most valuable characteristics. While it is so constructed 

 as to take land properly and hold easily, its foi-m is such 

 as to invert the sod properly, and leave it in the best con- 

 dition for preparation for the seed. Soils require varied 



,„,„,, „ treatment accordino; to their 



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fliiP texture and other characteris- 

 tics, and it is undoubtedly true 

 that no plow in existence is 

 fill the best for all soils. At the 

 same time it is true that few 

 fields have a soil so light and 

 friable that the condition in 



which the plow leaves the 

 well turned sod is a matter of 

 indifference. One of the 

 most intelligent and successful 

 farmers in the State says that 

 U the saving of labor in har- 

 ilirffljl|jll||fe rowing (twelve or fifteen acres 



lis 



of alluvial meadow,) pays 



him every year the whole cost of one of tlie Ingh priced 

 modern swivel plows. A plow with a mould-board so 

 formed that as it lifts the furrows it disintegrates and gran- 

 ulates the whole substance of the sod, so that the roots of 

 growing plants can penetrate it in searcli of the food they 

 require, is the nearest approach to the perfect plow. 



