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as to get very close to the trees whether one is plowing: towards 

 them or away from them, and the draft is surprisingly small 

 considering the surface covered. The writer has never seen an 

 accurate draft test of this i>low, but, in trying it out in orchard 

 practice as compared with the two types of walking plows just 

 mentioned, it did not seem that the team pulled any harder 

 with this gang throwing twenty-four inches than with a fourteen- 

 inch plow of the other sorts. Of course these small plows will 



Fig. 38. — A gang of three eight-inch plows. One of the best implements for orchard nse. 

 The draft is light and it covers a lot of land in a day. 



not throw a very deej) furrow, but this is seldom wanted in an 

 orchard. Three or four inches is usually ample. At the present 

 writing, with onl}^ one season's experience to base the opinion 

 on, this little plow seems to stand at the head for straight 

 orchard work. 



Orchard Disc Plow. — Lastly we have what is known as the 

 California orchard plow, shown in Figure 39. As will be seen it 

 consists of four large discs at one end of a long beam. The 

 great advantage of this implement is that it does very thorough 

 work and one can get very close to the trees with it and still 



