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reception of whatever seed is to be sown. The land will have to be 

 broken up, and the plough is the implement that must be used for 

 this purpose. It is presumed that the settler knows little or nothing 

 about agricultural practice and farm implements, and an illustration 

 of a plough is given with all the parts numbered and named, so that 

 if there is occasion later on to refer to any particular part, the reader 

 will, after having studied the illustration, know at once what is 

 meant. 



The objects of tillage are to so divide and mellow the soil as to 

 render it permeable to air, to water, and to the roots of cultivated 

 plants, and to so mingle all the parts of the soil that the constituents 

 required by plants for their nourishment may be equally diffused and 



