6 Report on Trials of Plows. 



The annual value of the crops produced on the present area of 

 plowed land in the United States, may be roughly estimated at 

 ($900,000,000) nine hundred millions of dollars, or eleven and a 

 quarter dollars per acre. 



If, by the use of better plows, we can increase this amount 

 forty-two per cent, the aggregate increase would he ($378,000,- 

 000) three hundred and seventy-eight millions of dollars. 



We do not mean to assert that this sum would represent the 

 actual increase of the annual value of the products of agriculture, 

 but allowing each reader to make the deductions which he may 

 think necessary for the increased cost of cultivating this increased 

 area, such as seed, planting, after-culture and gathering, it will 

 be seen that the use of the best form of the plow will increase 

 the aggregate profits of agriculture to an extent equal to the 

 annual national internal taxation of the United States. 



In view of the benefits which we have shown will result from 

 the adoption of the best form of the ploAv, it is obvious that no 

 amount of labor or expense which our agricultural societies can 

 bestow upon it with a view to its improvement, will be misap- 

 plied or wasted. 



We are not without hopes that our labors to this end at Utica 

 will be thought by our agricultural brethren to have yielded 

 some good fruits, and that this success will prove a suflicient 

 stimulus not only to our own Society, but to other State Socie- 

 ties in the United States, to continue this rigid system of obser- 

 vation until all the laws of the plow shall have been discovered 

 and accurately stated for the benefit of the farmers of our couiitiy. 



