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one spear of grass left where the rowen had been eight or 

 ten inches high. 



Oftentimes people tell us that the land-side ploughs or the 

 swivel-ploughs that they use, do not work. Well, it is their 

 fault, because they do not know how to put the plough in 

 order. Not one farmer in ten knows how to put a plough in 

 order to have it do good work. The Holbrook plough does 

 work perfectly on my land, and the man does not wear out 

 a pair of boots in a season, in kicking the furrow over, 

 either. There is no difficulty about doing it, if the plough 

 is put in pioper order. The land is ploughed from seven 

 to eight inches deep. Mr. Cheever knows whether my land 

 is smooth or not, and any one else, almost, in the eastern 

 part of the State. 



I think there are many good ploughs. Probably there are 

 other swivel-ploughs that will do work just as well as the 

 Holbrook plough. A more perfect furrow can be turned 

 by some of the land-side ploughs, but a swivel-plough will 

 do the work sufficiently well, better than most of the plough- 

 ing is done, and it will do it without leaving any dead fur- 

 rows. The advantage of getting rid of the dead furrow is 



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enough to compensate for any little deficiencies that it may 

 have. That is my own experience. 



Now, that same plough will not turn stubble ground. No 

 plough that will turn sod well, will turn stubble ground well. 

 Why ? Because the resistance being so much less in stubble 

 ground, it requires a shorter mould-board to turn it over 

 well. Every farmer knows that. Now in ploughing in the 

 garden for the late crops (I have thirty-five acres under cul- 

 tivation), we use a small swivel-plough which has a short 

 mould-board, and it does its work well ; there is no difficulty 

 about it. All my onion beds, strawberry beds, and every- 

 thing of the kind, are ploughed with a swivel-plough with a 

 short mould-board. I believe I bought the last one that 1 

 had, two or three years ago, of the Ames Plough Comjiany. 



Mr. BowDiTCH. No. 2 Centennial, probably. 



Mr. Parsons. When I was out West one of the things 

 that attracted my attention was the sulky-plough. It worked 

 very easily, and the farmers there seemed to do all kinds of 

 work with it, and they recommended it very highly. We 



