293 IRRIGATION FARMING. 



"When I received my plow from the manufacturer 

 I made no change of adjustment, as it was set for three 

 horses, and I reasoned that the maker knew how it 

 ought to be run, and I did not have to make any change 

 at all. The plow went sixteen inches deep from the sur- 

 face and pulled very hard on the team. I went one 

 round after many stops to rest, and then changed double- 

 trees and put on a big Percheron stallion. They now 

 went easier, but in a short time I became aware that the 

 enormous strain was too much to keep up long, so I 

 lowered the shoe to make the plow run about fourteen 

 inches in depth, plowing every two feet apart. This is 

 all the change I made, except to raise the shoe again for 

 twenty inches when cross-plowing. 



"The plow does not throw out any earth at all. It 

 simply lifts up the ground about four inches, raising it 

 most at the plow and for two feet each way, when, of 

 course, the ground splits or cracks in front of the stand- 

 ard and allows the inch and a half standard to pass 

 through, only leaving just such a track as a ground mole 

 leaves, excepting that this plow mole goes fourteen inch- 

 es deep. When I returned four feet away, the whole 

 ground between the plow marks was raised up, loosened 

 or stirred, being raised the most where the plow had 

 gone, and at the two-foot point between, it hud tin- 

 appearance of a dead furrow; but when this was also 

 plowed into it was raised just as high as the rest. The 

 earth .seemed to be moved ahead a little and raised up 

 about four inches. It was wonderfully mellow and could 

 have been harrowed down to a fine seedbed. I plowed 

 three acres in one and one-half days, and then cross- 

 plowed it, going every two and one-half feet apart and 

 twenty inches deep. 



" When I came to cross-plow I discovered the change 

 even more marked. I jl<'\\< <l from one i-nd in the form 

 of a back furrow, going every five feet, or a.s close as t IK- 



