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all one way, and so avoid the dead furrow in the centre and the 

 ridging on the sides. Now that the mowing machine has 

 become so universal, it is quite important to keep the land level, 

 and hence the Swivel plough is coming into general use upon 

 well managed farms. 



This plough, manufactured by the Ames Plow Company of 

 Boston, received the medal, or highest premium, of the New 

 England Agricultural Society, at tlie great plough trial at 

 Amherst, in 1868. 



A new invention, known as the Reversible Plough "Victory,'* 

 was entered by tlie ingenious inventor, C. W. Sykcs, of Suffield, 

 Conn. Tills plough did admirable work, and attracted a full 

 share of attention. 



The essential points 

 claimed for this implement 

 are ease of draught, ease 

 and facility of reversing 

 the mouldboards, freedom 

 from clogging, perfection 

 of turning the sod, ability 

 to take the furrow immediately on being thrown out in meeting 

 an obstacle, and adaptation to level as well as to side hill land 

 and to soils of every description, and that in case of the break- 

 ing of one of the mouldboards, the land can still be ploughed, 

 using the other as a common plough. 



The cut gives but an inadequate idea of the implement. It 

 is an over-beam swivel plough. It took the second prize for sod 

 ploughing on level land in competition with several otbers. It 

 is to be manufactured by the Peekskill Plow Company of 

 Peekskill, New York. 



Probably no implement on the farm has been so little im- 

 proved till within a recent period as the harrow. It is some- 

 what strange that it should have been so, since few implements 

 are of greater necessity. It naturally follows the plough, and 

 as a means of working the land to a proper condition for tho 

 reception of seed it must be regarded as only second in impor- 

 tance. 



One of the recent forms which this implement has assumed is 

 that known as Shares' Harrow, and for some purposes it appears 



PLOUGH "VICTORY.' 



