WORKING THE SOIL 



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pin end. Some plow wheels cut so badly that farmers 

 consider oil a damage and they are permitted to run 

 dry. This is not only very wasteful of expensive iron 

 but the wheels soon wabble to such an extent that they 

 no longer guide the plow, in which case the draft may 

 be increased enormously. 



Figure 139. A Combination Riding and Walking Cultivator, 

 showing fenders attached to protect young plants the first time 

 through. The two bull tongues shown are for use in heavy soils 

 or when deeper digging is necessary. 



Scotch Plows. When the long, narrow Scotch sod 

 plows are exhibited at American agricultural fairs they 

 attract a good deal of attention and no small amount of 

 ridicule from American farmers because of the six or 

 seven inch furrows they are intended to turn. In this 

 country we are in too much of a hurry to spend all day 

 plowing three-fourths of an acre of ground. Intensive 

 farming is not so much of an object with us as the 

 quantity of land put under cultivation. 



