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ions arrangement by which the draught is not required to be 

 reguhxted as the plough turns over. 



Mr. Grinnell. Isn't it tremendously heavy ? 



Mr. Weld. No, it is not heavy ; the draught is light. 

 The ploughs are pretty reasonably heavy, too ; but the 

 addition of a few pounds of extra weight does not affect the 

 team essentially. 



Mr. HiLLMAN. The gentleman who was up before the 

 last speaker has been so unfortunate in his selection of ploughs 

 that although it seems to me that I am more conspicuous than 

 I ought to be, I cannot refrain from rising. It does seem 

 to me he is entirely mistaken in his idea that there is no side- 

 hill plough that will do good work. I have had on my farm 

 the last three years a No. 2 Centennial plough. That plough 

 will turn over a furrow, I don't care whether it is on turf or on 

 old land, and lay it perfectly flat ; and in the case of old land, 

 the earth is so thoroughly pulverized that it is fit for planting 

 without any harrowing at all, and the surface is perfectly 

 level ; it is turned entirely over. It is the best plough for 

 ploughing turf or old laud. I thought I had good ploughs on 

 my farm before I got it. I bought it, not to work on land ; I 

 wanted to excavate for the purpose of building a barn, and 

 I bought that plough for that purpose ; but after doing that, I 

 put it into a field to plough turf land, and I found, after 

 getting the team properly attached and everything well 

 arranged, that there was no difficulty in doing first-class 

 work. It is just as useful in old land. 



Mr. Hewins. I have used the Ellis plough, made up in 

 Hinsdale, New Hampshire, for two years. I have used the 

 Prout Self-sharpener for twenty-five years. The principle 

 of the Self-sharpener, having two points, was devised by the 

 Hon. William Clark several years ago. I ploughed two or 

 three weeks ago on a side hill, up hill, with that plough, 

 and turned the land over as well as I could do it with any 

 other plough. It was a field that had been ploughed in the 

 middle of summer, so that it was very mellow^ and there 

 was not so much resistance to the plough as where the ground 

 18 harder. I have used that plough altogether for two year8 

 to plough turf land and stubblo land. I do not use any 

 other plough now, because I prefer not to have any dead fur- 



