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in snugly beside the previous furrow, g, h, i, k. 
But in practice, it is difficult to make the fur¬ 
rows do so; the}'' are very apt to ride on the 
corners, as represented by Fig. 30. With an in¬ 
clined land side, and a bevel cut from the land, 
this practical difficulty is avoided. 
find in practice that such plows can only be 
kept erect in furrows seven inches deep, by 
constant, laborious exertion on the part of the 
plowman; that they have a constant tendency 
to ride the furrow at the point where the mould 
board wings over so much ; that the heel of the 
Rtjggles, Notjrse, Mason & 
Fig. 31 represents the movement of the furrow 
slice over an imperfect mould board. It will 
be observed that the plow- is too wide on the 
bottom to take a narrow furrow, and if the at¬ 
tempt is made to turn a eleven-inch furrow, 
Fig. 35. 
there is no hinge left for it to turn on. The 
mould board is so short, and wings over so ex¬ 
cessively, that the furrow slice is cramped into 
an unnatural movement, and is badly broken. 
The plow is also too low every way for a seven- 
inch furrow, and is completely buried. We 
Co.’s Stubble Plow, No. 37. 
land side sole is lifted an inch or two from its 
proper level position in the furrow channel, and 
that the plow inclines very much to run on the 
point of the share. 
Fig. 32 represents a land side elevation, and 
fig. 33, a plan of stuble plow, No. 
37. There is a larger size, No. 38, 
adapted to deeper work than the 
plow here represented. The sur¬ 
face line, fig. 32, shows the posi¬ 
tion of this plow in a seven-inch 
furrow. The handles are of good 
length, though shorter than those 
of the No. 72 plow; the beam is 
high and arching; it is mounted 
with a short draft rod and a dial 
clevis, adapted to give the plow a 
wide range, both landing and earth¬ 
ing. The perpendicular height 
from the base line to the under 
side of the beam, immediately for¬ 
ward of the standard, is 17 inches, 
Fig. 34. which enables the plow to make 
its way among rank stubble, corn stalks, &c., 
without choking. The fin cutter is an excellent 
point in this plow. By making an easy, clean 
cut from the land, the furrow is not encumbered 
with clods of earth rolling down from the land 
side, as they are apt to do where the furrow is 
