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No, the right kind of one-way plough for a hillside 

 is the swing-under type. With one of these implements 

 there is nothing to do, when the end of a furrow is 

 reached, but lift up the stilts, touch a lever with the toe, 

 and the plough-breast and share swings from one side 

 of the plough to the other. Of course, all the furrows 

 will be thrown downhill, but the fact that this is so 

 renders the work easier, and, in addition, the sods are 

 packed tighter together. 



For the subsequent cultivations, always carried out 

 when the soil is moist, in summer and autumn, the 

 implements previously mentioned will suffice. 



After ploughing, the first implement to be used is 

 the disc-harrow. Now if the incline is fairly slight, this 

 implement can be worked at right angles to the incline, 

 but if at all steep, the top section of the disc does very 

 little work due to the canted position of the imple- 

 ment. 



DISC-HARROWING STEEP LAND. SOME USEFUL HINTS 



The best way of working the disc-harrow on a hill is 

 to go up idle and come down with the disc set to the 

 lowest depth. In ascending the hill, the disc should be 

 clear of the hill, which means getting a disc with an 

 easily operated transport attachment. 



In most makes of disc-harrows, the transport arrange- 

 ment is a separate concern altogether, and is only 

 used for traveUing along a road and often requires the 

 help of two or three men to mount the machine on the 

 transport. There is a disc made, though, the Howard, 

 on which the transport wheels are slung behind, and 

 in that position keep the disc steady when at work. 



To take the discs out of the ground all that need be 

 done is to pull a cotter-pin out which supports a lever, 

 and move the horses onward. Automatically the 

 harrow mounts the transport wheels. To put the discs 



