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in any soil, sticky clay and swamp muck included. The cutting edge 

 can be taken off and ground sharp when desired; the land side inclines, 

 from the unplowed ground, and so relieves the friction; the standard 

 cannot choke, and an arrangement of the heel enables the form, of the 

 furrow to be changed with ease, and so balances the plow that it can 

 be held steadily with a very little exertion of the plowman. 



THE SLIP SHARE. 



To avoid the frequent change of shares, and the extra cost of 

 replacing them, a reversible, self -sharpening slip point is now made. 

 When the bottom of this point is worn, and the plow tends to run 

 out of the ground, by reason of the rounded point, the slip point is. 



THE SLIP SHARE. 



taken out and reversed, and thus doubles the length of its useful life~ 

 When it is wholly worn out a new point is put in in place of it, and 

 thus the share is made to last as long as the plow, and seldom needs 

 renewing. 



THE SWIVEL PLOW. 



The old-fashioned side hill plow has recently been so much 

 improved that it is now used for level plowing with much advantage. 

 By the adjustment of the coulter the furrow slice is cut even in going 

 either way, and one former difficulty in its use has been avoided. 

 These plows have not been used so freely as they deserve to be, 

 when we consider the great advantage in their use by avoiding all 

 dead furrows, and the perfectly level plowing of the land, from one 

 back furrow in the centre of the field to each side, thus laying all the 

 furrows of each half of the field in the same direction. As no " lands " 

 are made, the harrow and the sowing of the seed or the planting may 

 follow the plow immediately, and the seed thus be deposited in the 

 fresh, moist soil. This makes a great saving of time, which in the 

 spring may often be of considerable importance. 



