CHAPTER IX 



PLOWING 



SOMETHING has already been said about 

 plowing, but the subject should be further 

 discussed as it is the most important adjunct to 

 the business of farming. 



A plow has been defined as a well known imple- 

 ment drawn by horses, mules, oxen or other power, 

 for turning up the soil to prepare it for growing 

 crops. 



Tull, an agricultural writer of the long ago, said, 

 "Writing and plowing are two different talents, 

 and he that writes well must have spent in study 

 that time which is necessary to be spent in the 

 fields by him who will be master of the art of 

 cultivating them. To write, then, effectively of 

 plowing, one must not be qualified to write learn- 

 edly. " 



As the author does not deem himself qualified 

 to write learnedly of plowing, he does believe, 

 however, that he can write with some effect upon 

 the art of plowing, for he first learned the art 

 holding the plow handles of a walking plow upon 

 the pioneer farm of his father, among the stumps 

 of the newly cleared timber soils, and his fondest 

 and sorest memories are of those youthful plow- 

 ing days. Fondest, because they were the halcyon 

 days of youth, the glorious springtime of our 



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