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ON PLOUGHING. 



leaves the extremities of the spokes exposed, and they 

 soon rot, for the wet that enters here is not soon 

 dried up. 



A four-inch felloe may have a whole hoop-tire put on 

 it; and it answers all the purposes of a wider rim, be- 

 sides being cheaper. The rim should never be much 

 narrower than four inches, for otherwise it cuts into 

 soft ground and runs harder through a field than a 

 wide one, and does much more damage. 



The end of the cart-tongue should never be plated 

 with iron. It wears out your sta))le and ring on the 

 yoke too fast, and the plating itself is not of long 

 duration. Cut again in the under side of the tongue 

 eight inches from the end of it, and wide enough to 

 admit the ring, and sink it about three fourths of an 

 inch deep. When you have put your oxen on, in case 

 the tongue nearly fills the ring, the gain will be suffi- 

 cient to carry your load ; but to make all safe,- take a 

 strip of board one foot long, as wide as the tongue, and 

 as thick as the ring will easily admit. Let it come 

 forward flush with the end of the tongue, and pin it on 

 to your tongue back of the ring of the yoke ; this pin 

 need be no tighter than the pin you usually draw by, 

 so you may easily ungear your team. This board will 

 prevent the wearing of the staple on the end of the 

 tongue, and, when worn out, is easily replaced. Indeed, 

 the whole may be made new in less time than it takes 

 to describe the process, and your tongue will last much 

 longer, geared in this way, than with iron plates, unless 

 those are made quite too heavy for convenient use. 



ON PLOUGHING. 



The season now approaches when we must begin 

 to think of ploughing. We hope our brother farmers 



