PLOWS. 



119 



work, and have remained with little change for centuries, 

 the owners not enjoying the benefit of agricultural read- 



ing and intelligence. Fig. 118 is a step in advance, and 

 represents a plow still used in some parts of Europe. In 

 the less improved portions of Germany, the Baden plow, 



Baden Plow. 

 represented by Fig. 119, is employed, and does not differ 

 greatly from the "bull plow" commonly used in this 

 country at the beginning of the 

 present century. Great im- 

 provement has been made within 

 the past fifty years, among others 

 by the ingenuity and labors of 

 Jethro Wood, and more recently 

 by a great number of inventors 

 and manufacturers in different 

 parts of the country. Wood 

 introduced the cast-iron plow 

 into general and successful use, ^^^^ ^^^^'^^ ^^" 



by cheapening its construction and perfecting its form. 



