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implement, on account of the loss of power by friction on 

 the land-side, and on the sole, still it is justly claimed that a 

 well made plow, with all the joints closely fitted up, is nearly 

 perfect for its special purposes, and it has been correctly as- 

 serted that a high application of mathematics has been exer- 

 cised in the production of the perfect model of this implement. 

 The mold-board is a curved wedge, so constructed as to lift 

 and reverse the soil in the most perfect manner, and at the 

 same time to comminute it completely, if the soil be in a 

 proper condition. 



In looking at these figures, and descriptions, the intelligent 

 reader will be surprised at the cumbrous clumsiness of the 

 implements described, and so favorably spoken of. He will 

 be particularly struck with the length of the beam — one of 

 these being twelve feet long — for a one horse plow! The 

 mode of attachment by shafts, instead of a short single-tree, 

 will also strike the American farmer as useless. With our 

 short beams, and a well broken animal, guided by a single line, 

 and broken to the word, a good plowman can turn in the mid- 

 dle of the rows, if necessary, or wherever his horse or mule 

 can get around ; but of course this would require more space 

 than the author assigns as his minimum distance between the 

 rows that can be plowed ; we plant our grapes at greater dis- 

 tances in this country. 



A great triumph for American agricultural implements, of 

 all kinds, is anticipated, at the approaching Exposition, at 

 Paris, and it is confidently expected that the plows sent from 

 this country will attract great attention, and accomplish a 

 success in the approaching trials of these implements. The 

 same may be predicted of the cultivators, of various kinds, 

 and of all sorts of earth-workers, which the inventive passion 

 of our people has furnished, for every kind of operation that 

 is to be performed on the farm, in the vineyard, or in the 



