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thus riggpd can be nin by a class of persons who cannot manage the common 

 plough, either from being lame, or from want of muscular ability to stand the 

 hard labor of travel over the rough ground, and the handling of the plough 

 and team. 



That a plough on wheels can be 

 made to do better work we have no 

 doubt. Severjil patents have been is- 

 sued for sulky ploughs, but, thus far, 

 none have proved practicable. Sev- 

 eral devices or sizes of wheels have 

 been morf or loss used, or applied to 

 the plough itself, to relieve it of fric- 

 tion, but none of them have come into 

 ^^ - ' '. general use. The next progress in 



plough-making must be to give the driver a sulky seat. 



GANO PLOUGHS. 



Thus far these have not auswerod the expectations of farmers. They are 

 heavy, liable to clog, and, though run on wheels, nothing appears to have been 



gained. A plough on wheels that 

 can be drawn by two or three horses, 

 and of any width of cut from twelve 

 to sixteen inches, Avould appear more 

 desirable. The gang plough, cutting 

 twenty to twenty-live inches in the 

 aggregate, requires four horses, and 

 as one of these must walk on the 

 ploughed land, it is hard work. We 

 observe some improvement of late in their construction that may tend to make 

 them useful. This mode of ploughing, by using the gang plough, to be followed 

 with a trench or subsoil plough, will doubtless prove useful. Another year's 

 experience is required to arrive at the merits of this mode of ploughing. 



The old standing coulter has been thrown aside, and the rolling or wheel 

 coulter substituted in its place. This coulter is very useful in all kinds of 

 ploughing, cutting through turf at little expenso of power, and making a 

 Bmooth, clean furrow. Another implement of value is the weed-hook, as shown 



