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is generally preferred, as it is more easily lifted over the 

 plants. 



A land-owner in the neighborhood of Saumur, has 

 invented the following vineyard plow, which also gives 



~r-^^'fs^^\'^^' ^' 







[Fig. 85.] — Lacaze's Plow. 

 very good results. It consists of a triangular plow- 

 share [A, Fig. 87], ten inches long, and six and three- 

 fourths inches wide at the base. The stock is twenty- 

 six inches in length, beginning from the tip of the wing 

 of the plow-share ; it is lined with iron at the lower 

 end. The mold-board, B, is curved; it is made of 



[Fig. 87.]— r/«« Plow. 

 strong sheet-iron — ^is twenty-four inches long, and only 

 ten inches high — ^is fixed to the rear stanchion by an 

 iron rod, which keeps it opened five and one-half inch- 



