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adapted lo all circumstances. The form, size, weight, and 

 material, must necessarily vary with the infinite variety of 

 soils and situations where a plow is to be used. Science, to 

 be sure, has demonstrated that "the mould-board should be 

 composed of straight lines in the direction of its length, with 

 continually increasing angles to the line of the furrows, and 

 these lines are severally straight, convex, and concave," and 

 Ransome, one of the most distinguished of modern plow 

 makers, says of the rule : "Although no one form of mould- 

 board will or can be applicable to every variety of soil and 

 circumstance, there is no description oi soil for which a perfect 

 mould-board may not be made by this rule in some of its modi- 

 ficatious." Many plow manufacturers in this country mako 

 a great variety, some as many as a thousand or twelve hundred 

 different kinds and sizes, and on more man a hundred different 

 and well defined principles. It is quite impossible, of course, 

 to do justice to them all by even an allusion to their compara- 

 tive meritv*. A plow best adapted to breaking sod land can 

 hardly be expected to be best adapted, also, to plowing 

 stubble, and the best stubble plow would not, perhaps, be a 

 good sod plow. Still, some plows, though not the best at 

 either, are very good at both. In other words, some are 

 adapte 1 to a wider range of circumstances, and, as the farmer 

 cannot always have both, it is often the best economy to choose 

 one that will do good work in a great variety of soils, one that 

 is well adapted to the widest range of usefulness. 



Among the plows eminently adapted to the general pur- 

 poses of farm work, that known as the " Doe Plow" has 

 reached a high degree of popularity in many parts of New 

 England. This favorite plow was, at first, manufactured at 

 Concord, New Hampshire, but is now made by Whittemore, 



"Belcher & Co., at Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts. It received 

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