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CAST-IRON PLOUGH-SHARES: 



BY COL. JOHN SMITH. 



DURING the lad fpring and iummer, In ploughing my fieldSg 

 I made ufe of the cafl: plough-fliare, which was exhibited to 

 the Agricultural Society, at their meeting during the lad 

 feflion of the Legiflature, and found it to exceed my mofl 

 fanguine expectations. It is caft in the form of a Dutch 

 fhare, after the bed model that could be procured by the 

 Society, with this exception, that the edge is. not complete, 

 and not fo wide by about three inches, as it will be when 

 finifhed with the falfe edge, which is made of wrought iron 

 or deel, and faflendd on with rivets. The foil in which I 

 ufed this fhare, was light and free from flone, tho' I believe, 

 with careful ufage, it will anfwer in any other foil, altho the 

 fame may be ftony and incumbered with flumps. This plough- 

 fhare befides anfwering every purpofe of thofe made of 

 v/rought iron, will laft to plough as much as two of the latter, 

 before it is worn out, the cafl iron being nearly as durable as 

 fleel before it is hardened. By this experiment, it is very 

 obvious, tlir.t the cafl plough-fliare will be v^ry beneficial to 

 farmers, and ought to be encouraged by this Society. They 

 may be had of Mr.Peter T. Curtcnius, in New- York, either with 

 or without the edge, which is made of wrought iron or fleel. 



