is some advantage in using this plough especially on heavy 

 soil where sowing is to be done on ridges for rainy season 

 crops or in furrows for the dry season, or where subsequent 

 earthing is done as in the case of potatoes, groundnuts, 

 sugarcane and mulberry. The ridges can be split and the 

 earth thrown on the furrows when required, for covering 

 seed potatoes, sugarcane cuttings, &c., or in the subsequent 

 earthings. 



165. Deep ploughing is done with ordinary native plough 

 as also with superior ploughs, by one plough being passed 

 behind another in the same furrow. Deep ploughing with 

 cheap appliances can be done in another way also. The 

 loose soil stirred by the first ploughing can be gathered 

 in the dry season in two rows separated by 8 or 9 ft. 

 by passing a heavy A shaped wedge of wood, which 

 may be called the Meagher Dragger (Fig. 12), through the 



FIG. 12. MEAGHER DRAGGER. 



ploughed field. The driver sits on one of the cross-pieces and 

 puts his legs against the other cross-piece when he is driving 

 the bullocks along. The interval can be ploughed afterwards 

 and the loose soil heaped up on the sides then spread over. 

 This method of ploughing in two layers may be utilised with 

 great advantage in introducing sewage farming. The sewage 

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