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not a very expensive machine ; I should say not over twenty- 

 five dollars ; probably not as much as that. I have seen it 

 several times. 



I viTould like to ask Mr. Grinnell if he knows of any 

 swivel-plough that will do good work on level ground ; as 

 good work as an improved right-hand plongh, the condi- 

 tions being equal? 



Mr. HiLLMAN. I saw a plough working not more than a 

 ■week ago on level land, and it was doing as perfect work as 

 any farmer need ever wish to see done. That was the XL. 

 I use on my farm the Centennial, and I have no difficulty in 

 instructing green hands in the course of a season so that 

 they will do work which agricultural college graduates pro- 

 nounce premium work. 



Mr. Grinnell. I have used side-hill ploughs of one 

 kind and another for more than thirty years. I was trying 

 to think, while Mr. Sedgwick was speaking, of the names of 

 some of them. The one I am usinof now is the Belcher & 

 Taylor. That plough does good work. It turns a furrow 

 as well as any plough. It is good enough. It turns a 

 furrow to suit me. My ploughing is all done in the fall. I 

 don't have to do it in the spring, and I want those furrows 

 turned and set up on edge, so that the frost and the weather 

 shall operate on the furrow slice. I don't want them turned 

 over flat with the sod clear down on the ground. I may be 

 wrong. There are different ideas about ploughing, and it is 

 a good time now to have it out. 



Mr. Stedman. I have used a swivel-plough that does 

 very good work in turf land, but not quite satisfactory to 

 me in stubble land. It leaves the furrows too much as Mr. 

 Grinnell has described, up edgewise. It docs not turn 

 enough. I have never been able to get a swivel-plough that 

 does turn enough to suit me on stubble land. Whitman, 

 Barnes & Co. have advertised what they call a perfect 

 swivel-plough. I have never tried that plough, but I have 

 tried other ploughs of their make, and my impression is 

 that they have as good a swivel-plough as is made, with the 

 exception that, two years ago, a man by the name of Saxe, 

 in Connecticut, invented a plough where one m;ui rode on 

 top of the beam, while the other was doing the work. 



