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one acre the team must travel a little over six miles. 

 Now if we assume that the team walks two miles an 

 hour for a 10-hour day, or twenty miles in all, then 

 the man will plow something over three acres a day. 

 If the team walks three miles an hour for the same 

 length of time, then he will plow almost five acres a 

 day. While it is not possible, perhaps, for one team 

 to pull a 16-inch plow through all kinds of soil at 

 the rate of three miles an hour for ten hours each 

 day, yet this serves to illustrate the value of fast 

 walking. Consider the case of a man harrowing with 

 a 12-foot harrow and the team traveling first at the 

 two-mile and then at the three-mile gait. As he 

 must travel a little over two thirds of a mile in har- 

 rowing one acre, in the former case he will harrow 

 approximately twenty-nine acres a day, while in the 

 latter case almost forty-four acres will be covered in 

 the ten hours. Or consider the case of a man culti- 

 vating corn with a single-rowed cultivator where the 

 rows are three and one half feet apart and the team 

 traveling at the same gaits as before. As the team 

 must travel approximately two and one third miles 

 to cultivate one acre, at the two-mile gait almost 

 eight and one half acres will be cultivated, while at 

 the three-mile gait almost thirteen acres will be cov- 

 ered in the ten hours. Further, there is nothing, 

 perhaps, that will cause a road horse to be driven 

 harder and kept so continually at the trot as a de- 

 ficiency in the walking gait. 



