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fully from experience ; but ihe following are the 

 most important points. About the time the 

 seeds ripen, and before the blades get too dry, 

 commence mowing. Let the hay have sun till 

 it is wilted and about half dry, then put it in 

 cocks supposed to contain from 180 to 200 lbs. 

 when properly cured. Be careful to put it into 

 cocks every night to protect it from the influ- 



ences of the dew. If hay be left out in ihe sun 

 till cured, it will be found to have lost most of 

 its strength and sweetness; and of course will 

 be of but little value. When cured without 

 dew or rains in neat little cocks, the hay will be 

 found very sweet and excellent. Judgment is 

 to be exercised, if success is to be anticipated. 



Tennessee Jlgriculturist. 



HILL SIDE PLOUGH. 



Wirh the i n proved system of farming that 

 begins to prevail, a considerable demand has 

 arisen for a good hill side plough. The throw- 

 ing dirt up a slope is found to be an uphill busi- 

 ness, and is far loo slovenly a mode of proceed- 

 ing fur the present generation. The old side 

 hill plough, commonly known as Rhodes', in 

 which the mouldboard turns over, is inconvenient 

 and troublesome, and the want of a more perfect 

 implement has been generally felt. In an early 

 number of the Planter we sketched and de- 

 scribed another principle, introduced here as 

 Tinkler's, which is still very popular with some. 

 But two new candidates for popular favor have 

 lately appeared amongst us. One of these is 

 M'Corri'ick's hill side plough, and the other is 

 the celebrated northern plough, known as Bar- 

 naby & Moers'. The plough represented in the 

 engraving was patented by Cyrus H. M'Cor- 



rnick, of Rockbridge, Virginia, in 1833, and is 

 probably the original of the nonhern plough. — 

 They both belong to that class which, like the 

 old "trench plough," is produced by the union 

 of two mouldboards. This trench plough, which 

 is so old that "the memory of man runneth not 

 to the contrary," was formed by putting together 

 the land sides of a right and left hand plough, 

 by which you would have a double mouldboard, 

 a double wing, and a double point. The beam 

 was immoveably fixed over the centre of the 

 plough ; consequently, the dirt was thrown 

 equally to the right hand and the left, and it 

 was found very useful in opening water furrows 

 or trenches, whence it derived its name. Now 

 it is very evident, that if the beam, instead of 

 lying over the centre, should be turned to one 

 side, so as to lie over one of the mouldboards, 

 that mouldboard would become in effect, a land- 



