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I give this as an extieme case ; but I have found a good 

 many farmers who appear sadly deficient in mechanical 

 ingenuity when hitching to a plough, whether it be a swivel 

 or a land-side. 



Mr. Watekman. I would not have the impression go out 

 that I cannot use a swivel-plough, for the first plough I ever 

 held in my life was a swivel-plough. I think I can plough 

 just as well as any man with a swivel-plough. 



Mr. Cheever. If our speaker this evening could have 

 pointed to a sulkj'-plough that would turn furrows both 

 ways, I think he would have been glad to have emphasized 

 the sulky-plough ; but one objection to them is that we 

 have to plough around our woik with them, and leave dead 

 furrows. Two sulky-ploughs have been constructed with 

 the hope that they would plough back and forth, but 

 neither of them has as yet been perfected. 



Mr. Slade. Allow me to ask Mr. Cheever if he knows 

 of any simple attachment that can be adjusted to a common 

 plough, that will enable a man to turn under long rye or 

 oats, or any heavy crop, and cover it up? 



Mr. Cheever. I know of nothing better than a heavy 

 chain hitched so that it will drag the crop down. 



Mr. Slade. Where would you hitch it. 



Mr. Cheever. Hitch one end to a cross-bar bolted to 

 the forward end of the beam ; the other somewhere near the 

 rear end of the beam, letting it hang loose. I have had no 

 practice with anything of the kind since I was a boy, but 

 my father used a chain successfully. 



Mr. Russell. I wish to add to this talk about ploughing, 

 that the team is an important part in doing good work. I 

 suppose that nearly everybody here has noticed the posters 

 that have been put up in the hall by the direction of the old 

 Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of Agriculture, 

 who announce not only the importation of their Percheron 

 horses for the improvement of teams in Massachusetts, but 

 also the liberal premiums that they have offered for the 

 produce of those horses as yearlings, which will probably be 

 awarded year after next. I hope that everybody here has 

 taken notice of these posters, and that the information will 



