NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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IIILL-SIDE OR SWIVEL PLOUGH. 



This plough is so constructed that the mould-board 

 may be easily changed from one side to the other 

 while the team is turning, -which admirably adapts it 

 to ploughing on hill sides, as all the furrows are 

 turned down hill. It is superior for various other 

 pui-poscs, and may be used to advantage for all kinds 

 of ploughing for which the common plough is used. 



In ploughing on level land, furrows may \>e rmxdo 

 in each direction, on the same side, saving the time 

 required to pass from one side of a land to the other, 

 and the disadvantage of the team passing frequently 

 over land for that purpose, which is sometimes very 

 injurious. By this mode of ploughing there is no 

 dead furrow, which is often a serious inconvenience, 

 so much so, that some neat farmers take up the slices 

 of the first furrows, and place them into the dead fur- 

 rows, to make the land level. Another disadvantage 

 is avoided, which is the turning of two furrows 

 together, in the beginning of a land, forming ridges. 

 These prominences, contrasted with the depressions 

 caused by the dead furro"u-o, arc not only unsightly, 

 but very inconvenient, both in tillage and grass lands. 



The hill-side plough is excellent for making roads, 

 as the furrow-slice may be thrown to either side, as 

 most convenient in constructing the road. It is also 

 well adapted to ploughing by the side of fences or 

 ditches, as the team may bo kept close to them, and the 

 furrow-slice thrown from them in passing either way. 



Six or seven sizes of these ploughs arc made, vary- 

 ing from the small, one-horse plough, up to the 

 large, stout implement, suitable for a team of six or 

 eight cattle, well adapted to breaking up rough, hard 

 lands, or making roads upon an uneven surface, and 

 with a soil filled with impediments. With a wheel 

 and cutter, the hill-side plough makes smooth, even 

 furrows. 



AMERICAN FRUIT-BOOK. 



As the season is at hand for attending to fruit 

 trees, it may be well to call attention to the above 

 book. It is not our design to recommend our own 

 work, but we may be allowed to present the opinions 

 of others. We copy the following from the Family 

 Visitor, Cleveland, Ohio, by Professor Kirtlaud, 

 senior editor of that valuable work. Prof. K. is one 

 of the most distinguished pomologists and fruit- 

 growers in the country. 



" A Book for Eveuy Body. — ' The American Fruit- 

 Book, containing Directions for Raising, I'ropagating, 

 and Managing Fruit Trees, Shrubs, and Plants ; with 



a Description of the best Varieties of Fruit, including 

 new and valuable Kinds ; Embellished and Illustrat- 

 ed with numerous Engravings of Fruits, Trees, In- 

 sects, Grafting, Budding, Training, &c. By S. W. 

 Cole, Editor of the Is'cw England Farmer, and 

 Author of the American Veterinarian.' 



" This book is a neat duodecimo volume o£ two 

 hundred and eighty-eight v^^cs, so well got up that 

 it faitKiuUy fulillsall the promises held forth in its 

 long and comjn'ohcnsivo title page. 



" Its merits and value are justly estimated by one 

 who was obliged to contend Avith the confusion and 

 perplexities which surrounded the subject of fruits 

 and their cultivation at the west for forty years, and 

 ahuost up to the prcsoiit time, with no other guides 

 than Coxo and Forsyth. 



" Wc take pleasure in recommending it to the 

 puldic as a cheap and brief, but very perfect epitome 

 of Amci-ican fruit culture, including all the recent 

 improvements and discoveries." 



The following arc a few of the commendatory re- 

 marks of F. K. Phcenix, Esq., a practical farmer and 

 experienced nurseryman, who edits the horticultural 

 department of the Wisconsin Farmer, a new and 

 interesting periodical in the " far west." 



" Mr. Colo has certainly approached far nearer the 

 standard he has aimed at, than any other pomological 

 author we are acquainted with. It is emphatically 

 ' A Book for Every Body ' — much in a small com- 

 pass, and at a small price. To get up such a work, 

 on a subject that has become so very much ampliticd 

 and extended as pomology, and especially of late, 

 required great condensation, to present any thing like 

 a fair synopsis of it. But we think that, in the 

 main, it has been ably done in the work before us." 



ilr. P. in making an elaborate review of the whole 

 work, says at the conclusion of his second chapter, 

 " W'e cannot help iinrcscrvcdly expressing our ad- 

 miration at the skill and judgment, the decided ability 

 manifested by the author, in executing his task." 



One feature of this work is peculiar, as it is seldom 

 met with in other books, which is, the naming the 

 defects, as well as the f/ood qnaltties, of fruits and trees. 

 Intelligent fruit-growers have frequently remarked 

 that the simple word tmcertain, which occurs in the 

 American Fruit-Book, would, had they seen it in 

 previous works, have saved them, in several cases, 

 an expense of fifteen or twenty dollars, in useless 

 experiments on uncertain or variable fruits. 



We have received hundreds of commouJatory 

 notices of this work from inteUigent conductors of 

 joxirnals, and practical nurserymen, orchardists, and 

 pomologists. But we need present no more, as our 

 object is to call attention to tlie examination of the 

 work. 



