Steam Husbandry with Open DRAtNAGE. loi 



1. To run the plough on to a skeleton platform (to 

 allow room for the tines) on 4 broad wheels, which could 

 be moved up and down the tracker. 



2. To run the plough across the tracker, cleaning it 

 out afterwards. 



3. To turn the plough by manual labour when it 

 reached the tracker. 



The last plan has been temporarily adopted in four 

 fields. This turning requires about 6 to 8 hands. In 

 the event of the platform on wheels being subsequently 

 tried, which however is not likely, it is proposed to 

 parapet the tracker on each side, so that the tines of the 

 plough will work free of the soil, before the plough 

 mounts the platform. In the case of the fields 

 prepared with two trackers instead of one, it is 

 proposed to run the plough right aciossthem, cleaning 

 them out afterwards at a cost of 72 cents each per fifty 

 roods. The latter plan at present is considered the best. 

 The above expedients may seem somewhat troublesome, 

 but when it is remembered what labour and expense the 

 plough saves, it will be readily understood that we are 

 prepared to go to any trouble, to make one of these 

 systems, or any better one, a complete success. 



Now there is a rather important matter which has not 

 yet been touched upon, and which I am sure has not 

 escaped the attention of Planter friends present. 



The following paragraph, which I quote from Mr. RUS- 

 SELL'S report, will give an idea of what this matter is. 

 That gentleman writing of Pin. Eninore^ said, " Mr. 

 Stokes has now laid out several fields on the Louisiana 

 system of planting, that is with the cane rows running 

 parallel to the small drains, so as to overcome the difficulty 



