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with advantage, and the ground can be ploughed "scrulted up" 



is the better expression, as 

 it is hardly ploughing, tin 

 der the circumstances with 

 a stump-jump plough. This 

 plough, as the illustration 

 shows, and as its name im- 

 plies, is constructed in such 

 a manner as to permit 

 ground of the very rough- 

 est kind being worked. If 

 an obstacle which cannot 

 be cut through is encount- 

 ered by the share the movable beam is raised by the tractive force, 

 and, after the obstacle is passed, the share falls into the land again 

 and recommences work. The stump-jump plough is, however, an 

 expensive item a double-furrow costing about ^17, and a treble- 

 furrow ^"23 the small settler will be hardly able to afford, and 

 unless he can get the work done by contract, an ordinary single- 

 furrow plough will have to be called into requisition. Ploughing 

 only partially cleared land with a single-furrow rigid plough is a 

 most exhilarating, but not altogether satisfactory, operation, but still 

 it can be clone with a little care and without damaging the imple- 

 ment. If the land is to be cleared outright at once, which is by 

 far the best way, if time and means permit, the settler must gird up 

 his loins and make up his mind to tackle the job bravely. If a big 

 tree has to be got out it is no use playing round the roots. Dig the 



THE 



WRONG 

 WAY 



soil away \vell round the tree, so that you have plenty of room to 



