No. S. 



Side Hill Plough. 



119 



few of them can be found — and those /ew) ap- 

 pear to be dead or disabled. It seems evi- 

 dent that the greater number, which left the 

 head in the field, (as they appear ill-calculated 

 for makmg long joumies,) take up their 

 abode among the stubble, or in the ground, 

 where they remain through the winter, in a 

 torpid or inactive state. Ploughing in the stub- 

 ble immediately after the wheat is taken off, or 

 later in the fall, I think cannot fail to have ihe 

 effect of destroying many of them, as well as 

 other insects. If the insects burrow deep in 

 the ground — yet not beyond the reach of the 

 plough — they will be turned up near the sur- 

 face," and destroyed by the freezings and 

 thawings of winter and spring ; if they re- 

 main near the surface— among the stubble, 

 or the roots of the grass— they will be turned 

 under and buried so deep that they cannot 

 find their way out in season to do mischief, if 

 ever. To all insects that burrow in the 

 ground, a rout by the plough, cannot prove 

 otherwise than disastrous, after they have re- 

 tired to " winter quarters." 



If this view is correct it will be seen that 

 the common method of seeding to grass with 

 the wheat, and not ploughing under the stub- 

 ble is calculated to give the wheat worm a 

 fair chance to infect all succeeding crops. 

 For if allowed to survive the winter, and 

 emerge a fly, its loings will bear it to the 

 neighboring wheat fields, in which it depo- 

 sites the egg — produces the worm — and thus, 

 \? unmolested, increase a thousand fold yearly. 



Then, to rid ourselves of this minute but 

 formidable enemy, when we seed to grass, 

 we must substitute some crop not liable to be 

 injured or infected by the worm, instead of 

 wheat; — and plough under ihe wheat stubble, 

 WITHOUT RESERVE, Until the worm is ejcter- 

 minated. 



To do this, is in the power of every farmer ; 

 and I would ask for it your consideration and 

 a fair trial. 



October 3d, 1837. 



Side Hill Plough. 



Mr. Holmes: — I have for some time past 

 felt desirous to call your attention and the at- 

 tention of the agricultural community to the 

 Side Hill Plough. There are several kinds 

 of ploughs so called, but I mean that with a 

 rolling share and mouldboard. You doubtless 

 have seen them and perhaps know much bet- 

 ter how to estimr.te their value than I — but 

 what I have seen of them and the use I 

 have made, and the experience of others 

 much better qualified to judge of their worth 

 than I, have convinced me that they ought 

 to take the place of all other ploughs as pos- 

 sessing all the good properties of the best 

 cast iron ploughs, to which is to be added 



those of turning the furrow to either the right 

 hand or the left. 



They are not patented. They are manu- 

 factured by a Mr. Nourse, of Worcester, 

 Mass. and were introduced into the town by 

 Samuel Davis, Esq. 



There are now in, and within two or three 

 miles of this village, two dozen or more of 

 them in actual use, and I believe every man 

 who has tried them is entirely satisfied with 

 ihem, and has either gotten one for his own 

 use or is determined to have one the first 

 opportunity, 



They are not only applicable to the side 

 hill but equally to the level grounds, entire- 

 ly superseding the necessity of a central or 

 dead furrow. I have had my ploughing done 

 for two years past with this kind of plough, 

 and T do not hesitate to say that the plough- 

 in o- has been as well done as it could have 

 been done with any other plough in use. 



I held the plough one half day to brake up 

 land that has been mowed about five years. 

 One yoke of oxen was all the team necessary. 

 The work was done with ease to the cattle, 

 and the man who owned the cattle and who 

 drove them for me, has since purchased one 

 of the ploughs for his own use. 



One of our citizens contracted to build, and 

 built a new road of about one mile on the 

 shore of a pond where, he was under the ne- 

 cessity of ploughing upon one side of the 

 road altogether — he purchased one of these 

 ploughs on purpose, and now says, he more 

 than^cleared the price of it in the time of his 

 team and hands which would otherwise have 

 been spent in travelling without ploughing. 

 Much more might be said in favor of these 

 ploughs, but my only object is to call the at- 

 tention of those farmers who are about pur- 

 chasing ploughs to do their fall ploughing. 

 To such 1 would say — don't purchase until 

 you have seen and are satisfied. All that will 

 be necessary to satisfy you is to try, and I am 

 certain you will buy. 



They need no other recommendation in 

 this vicinity — there will be very few other 

 ploughs used in one or two more yearg. 

 Yours, very respectfully, 



A Friend to Agriculture. 

 Mt. Vernon Villajre, Sept 8, 1837. 

 Sept. 17, 1837. — I am this moment in- 

 formed that Mr. Davis has sold 10 of the 

 above ploughs within one fortnight. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



[Will some one acquainted with the 

 plough noticed above, furnish the Editor of 

 the Farmers' Cabinet with a drawing, and 

 a full and correct description of the same?] 



If you want to get rich, work hard and 

 spend little. ' 



