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that of the blacksmith to make the iron nose and even this is not | 
an absolute necessity, as our hardwoods will stand a good deal of 
friction before wearing away. 
To make the leveller, take two hardwood planks about 12 feet 
in length, two inches thick, and eight inches wide. Cut down one 
edge with a drawing knife, plane, or adze, so that it will be about 
half an inch on the edge. Put the boards together in V shape, with 
the flaring edges at the bottom inside and resting on the ground. 
Take an eight-foot board, trimmed down the same, but two inches 
narrower. Mortise and holt the ends into the side boards about 
two feet from the ends. Put two bolts through where the side 
pieces are joined to make the front of the leveller. Bolt a hovk on 
top so that the whipple-trees may be attached. Nail an eight-inch 
board across near the centre. When you want to cut down a ridge, 
ride upen the board, drive the horses on one side, and swing your 
weight so as to cut into tbe scil. If you wish to fill up dead fur- 
rows or ditches, drive along one side and throw the weight of the 
body where the soil is to be moved from, and thereby gauge the 
filling of the hole. 
Va 
Serviceable Land Leveller. 
Every year almost witnesses the production of implements 
possessing’ special merit; among those in favour at present are the 
Digging Plough, the Dise Plough, the Spading, the Acme, the Dise, 
and the Spring-tooth Harows, as well as the old Drag or Zig-zag 
Harrow, the Planet Junior Horse Hoe. 
The annual cultivation of the soil may be said to begin in the 
winter time, when one or two ploughings are done according as the 
soil is lighter or heavier, and the work of cultivation effected more 
thoroughly. 
At least one of these winter ploughings should be deep, and 
the plough should he set in the middle of the rows of-trees or vines 
to a depth of six to seven inches. When finishing off, a lighter 
plough may be used with advantage, or the depth of the furrow 
reduced to tree or four inches. 
