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How THE FARM PAYS. 



team. The wheels are arranged so that the plow runs level; the 

 draft is, of course, reduced to a minimum, because the weight of the 

 plow does not rest upon the ground. It is provided with a foot lever, 

 by which the driver can either hold the plow to its place in hard 

 ground or wholly lift it out of it. The plow can turn a square corner 

 without leaving the ground, and it has only one lever by which all 

 the changes required in its work are made. With this plow a crippled 



man, having but one leg, is able to work as well as an able-bodied 

 man, and cases have occurred in which, on the death of a farmer, his 

 wiJow and daughters have been able to work the farm and support 

 themselves without the aid of hired labor. With mowers and reapers, 

 riding harrows, and cultivators, there was only required the riding plow 

 to fill the whole bill, and this is done now by more than one excellent 

 implement of this kind. The engraving here given represents a plow 

 sulky which can be attached to any plow in a few minutes, and so- 



