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talking about something that you don't know anything 

 about ; " but I know they work well ; I know it saves us a 

 g.eat deal of money. I do not see why farmers could not 

 use it here. "We cut this year, upwards of eight hundred 

 acres of wheat and oats with these machines. 



Question. Which do you like best, the wire or cord bind- 

 ers? AA^hat does it cost an acre to cut grain with one of 

 those machines? 



Mr. BoDMAN. We use both. I can't tell you what it 

 would cost for either of them. There is some objection to 

 the wire on account of its getting into the grain. 1 think 

 latterly we have been using the cord. 



Question. How many rows do you plant? 



Mr. BoDMAN. We plant two rows, and ahvays ride on 

 the machine. We plant from twelve to twenty acres a day, 

 or the machine does, and covers the seed Avell. We have 

 generally used the Brown planter in the West. The reapers 

 we use are McCormick's. There are some three or four 

 varieties of those reapers used in the W^est, and also of the 

 ploughs that I speak of. 



Mr. Cheever. I do not expect to unravel all this tangle 

 that we seem to be in about the use of the swivel-plough, nor 

 do I expect to convert by argument those who never could 

 turn a good furrow with one, but if they will come to my 

 place, I will show them that as good work can be done with 

 a swivel as with a land-side plough. 



To make a land-side jjlough take a wider or narrower fur- 

 row to accommodate a team that croAvds towards or from the 

 land, we have only to move the clevis a little. If using a 

 swivel-plough behind a poorly trained team, the clevis would 

 require moving at the end of each furrow, because if set to take 

 a wider furrow going one way, it would take a narrower one 

 after the mould-board had been reversed for the return furrow, 

 so an even-walking and even-pulling team is indispensable 

 for doing perfect work with ordinary swivel-ploughs, held by 

 ordinary ploughmen. I have often heard men say of swivel- 

 ploughs, that " they will turn a good furrow one way but 

 not the other." 



This may be owing to a defect in the plough, to a bent 



