94 THE OLIVER PLOW BOOK 



// this ground is to be seeded immediately it is plainly apparent that 

 it can be worked into an ideal seed bed much quicker than the two fields 

 shown on page ninety-three. However, if this ground is to be left for 

 spring planting and the locality happens to be one where there is a great 

 deal of snow and rainfall, the ground may have to be replowed on 

 account of the extreme mellowness making it apt to run together. 



plowing to fulfill these requirements would not be so 

 good for crop growing in some sections as another type 

 of plowing that would far from fill these requirements. 

 Hence, it would be much better for those who are 

 deciding plowing contests to judge the quality of work 

 in accord with the results expected of the plowing. 



Plowing being done primarily for growing crops it 

 would seem logical that the rules of plowing contests 

 should be worded so as to promote the kind of plowing 

 that will produce the best crops on the ground being 

 plowed. Sod plowing should not be judged as stubble 

 plowing; plowing for wheat should not be judged the 

 same as plowing for corn, etc. 



The second rule, back furrow slightly raised and all 

 trash covered, is a good one to follow in clay and loam 

 soils. It is easy to understand how these requirements 



