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rows, and because this turns over the ground better than 

 any other. INIy oldest boy says he does not have to use his 

 foot so much in ploughing as he used to with the other 

 ploughs, in kicking over the turf. If the gentleman who 

 spoke is incredulous about it, if he will come over to my 

 place, if it don't work as I say it does, I will give him the 

 plough. 



Mr. Waterman. He says his plough will turn the sod 

 bottom upwards ; then he says it will turn old land equally 

 well. Now, I never saw any sward-plough that would pul- 

 verize old ground. It takes a different plough to plough 

 sward-land from what it does to plough stubble-land. 

 Prouty & Mears' plough will not turn old ground, because it 

 does not give it motion enough. 



Mr. Moore. I take a good deal of pride in my grass 

 land, and some six or seven acres of that land is re-seeded 

 on the sod every fall. To do that properly it must be well 

 ploughed, and I have used for the last six or eight years, 

 nothing but a swivel-plough to do it with. I have used sim- 

 ply the Holbrook plough, which some of you might con- 

 demn. The man who works for me is a good ploughman ; 

 he can hold a plough and manage his horses very well. I 

 sent him out some three years ago to do ploughing, and 

 he came back to me and said, " I can't do anything with 

 that plough. It will turn the furrow one way well, but 

 coming back it won't do it." I went out to the field and 

 said to him, " You ought to know better than to be plough- 

 ing in this way." It was not half ploughed. He says, 

 " AVhat is the matter?" Said I, " You are a good plough- 

 man, you ought to know what is the matter. In the first 

 place you have got a good plough, but you have got a pair 

 of short eveners. You ought to know better than to blame 

 this plough because it don't give you the right draught." He 

 got the long eveners, but still the plough did not work very 

 well. 



Then said I, " We will look a little further. I know 

 that plough can do good work." It has an adjustable cutter ; 

 as that moves, you change the mould-board. I touk a mon- 

 key wrench and fixed that cutter as it ought to stand, and it 

 will turn old grass land by the acre so that you shall not see 



