MODERN BLACKSMITHING 



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when the point wants to be heaviest on the bottom 

 side. I hold that in ordinary cases the most of the 

 point should be on the bottom side. If it is it will 

 wear better and keep in the gTOund longer, for as soon 

 as the point is worn off underneath it comes out of the 

 ground. 



Don't monkey with old mower sections or anything 

 like them for points, for, although the material is good, 

 it is not the quality alone but also the quantity that 



JAPANESE PLOW 



goes to make up a good point. It takes only a few 

 hours' plowing to wear off a section from the extreme 

 point of the share, and then there is only the iron of 

 the plow point left to wear against, and your time 

 spent for such a point is lost. Another thing, it takes 

 just as much time to put on such a point as it does to 

 put on a good one for which you charge the regular 

 price. 



In putting on a point of thin material you must go 

 unusually slow, or you will burn the steel before the 

 plow point is hot. 



