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patentee of plows made with pieced castings, wliicli is a favorite 

 witli the farmers along the Hudson, is a fair specimen of the 

 most useful and handy plow for common purposes, to he work- 

 ed in all soils with a single pair of oxen or horses, with or 

 without the forward gauge-wheel and coulter. 



Fig. 1(3 is a longer-fashioned and more wedge-like plow. 



Fig. 10. 



LongBr-fasIiioned two-horse Plow. 



often preferred for land that is smooth and free from stones, as 

 upon our Western prairies ; but the shorter the gearing of the 

 plow, the closer will it run to the ends, and be turned and oth- 

 erwise managed the more easily. 



The subsoiler (Fig. 17) is simply a heavy, strongly-made 



Fig. IT. 



Subsoiler. 



plow-frame and share, without mouldboard, calculated for fol- 

 lowing in the wake of the common plow to loosen thoroughly 

 the deeper soil. 



Small plows should never be made with double handles ; 

 why they over were so made I am at a loss to divine, unlc;;s in 



