262 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. 



That is the only perfect working swivel-plough I have been 

 able to find yet. 



Mr. Waterman. I have used almost all kinds of ploughs 

 Avithiii the last forty years. I have never yet been able to 

 hold a side-hill plough, or follow one that would run eight 

 feet without falling down. I never saw a side-hill plough 

 that would turn a furrow bottom up. With any side-hill 

 plough that I ever saw, you must put your foot on the land to 

 keep it up straight, or it will tip over. 



Mr. AVeld. An allusion of Mr. Sedgwick makes mo 

 think of a side-hill plough which has recently come out. A 

 German came to see me for the purpose of consulting me in 

 regard to putting a plough on the market. He brought his 

 plough with him. It was one plough riding on another. 

 The beam rested on a little carriage, as is very common in 

 Germany. He sent that plough to my place, and it did 

 excellent work. The plough would hold itself. You could 

 let that plough go for rods without touching it, and it would 

 turn the furrow bottom up, if you set it for that kind of 

 work. He took the plough to the New York Plough Com- 

 pany, and they made him some ploughs with that little iron 

 carriage in front. That was an objection ; it made the thing 

 costly, but it would run alone. That was the great point 

 with the plough ; any child could hold it, and at the end of 

 the furrow, it could be turned round very easily. Still, the 

 horses did not come quite up to the fence ; it left a little 

 space. He worked away at that until he perfected a plough 

 which will turn in that way without a carriage, and that 

 plough is now made by the New York Phnigh Com- 

 pany, i used the plough last year. A man that I got in 

 New York, for pretty low wages, was instructed in the use 

 of the implement, and he did just as good ploughing with 

 that thing as had ever been done on my farm ; but the bolt 

 that united those two ploughs was not strong enough, and 

 broke once or twice. Now, after the expt^rience of a year 

 or two, the thing is better. But that is a perfect side-hill 

 plough. Of course, the model of the plough can be what- 

 ever you prefer. They put two very good ploughs together. 

 They are called the twin ploughs, and there is a very ingen- 



