A NEW DRAINING PLOW. 
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A NEW DRAINING- PLOW. 
We find the following account in an English 
paper of a new draining plow. We know noth¬ 
ing of its merits other than what we see stated ; 
but its construction strikes us favorably, and 
should the following description do nothing 
more than incite our ingenious mechanics to 
get up something similar, our object in copying 
the article will be effected. We presume this 
plow will be exhibited at the World’s Fair in 
London. 
Mr. Cotgreave’s principle consists of a series 
of plows derived from the carpenter’s plane; in 
fact it is nothing more nor less than a land plane; 
and when seen, every one must wonder why 
the principle now brought into operation has 
not been applied years ago. With the excep¬ 
tion of the main drains, all the work, even to 
the obtaining the perfect level of the drain, is 
performed by the plane plow. Mr. Cotgreave 
has so adapted his plow that with four horses 
he can throw out a drain from four to five feet 
deep. The saving of time is another material 
object. The work by this process is almost in¬ 
credibly expeditious, and very little damage is 
done to the surface; indeed, in grass lands, a 
heavy roller will repair all damages. The cost 
of workmanship is half the price of manual la¬ 
bor, on the present system; and the time occu¬ 
pied one tenth, while the work, to say the very 
least of it, is as efficiently and durably perform 
ed. 
We now proceed to the detail of the plow. 
We find that the necessary staff of men is ten, 
and of horses four; and with this at command, 
Mr. Cotgreave will be enabled, without distress¬ 
ing either horses or men, to commence two stat¬ 
ute acres in the morning, and finally complete, 
that is, cut the drains, (including the main 
drain,) lay the pipes, fill in and make good the 
surface of one statute acre, and half prepare 
the second to be ready for work the next day. 
The plow, as we have already explained, is on 
the plane principle, and, by means of screws, 
can be adapted as occasion requires, even while 
in operation in the cutting, to take a shaving or 
two, three, four, five, or six inches in depth. 
This control of the plow is most necessary, as 
it must be evident that certain portions of the 
land, requiring to be drained, frequently have 
undulations; and if there were no regulating 
principle, it is quite certain no water level could 
be obtained by a plow. This point, we partic¬ 
ularly impress on the attention of our readers; 
because every practical man, at first, would en¬ 
quire how this difficulty is to be overcome. 
THE SHORTHORN COW G-RACE. 
The accompanying cut of Mr. Stevens’ cow 
Grace, presents her very fairly, but not flatter¬ 
ingly. We are indebted to B. P. Johnson, Esq., 
secretary of the New-York Agricultural Society, 
for its use; and it is taken from the volume of 
the Transactions of the Society for the year 1850, 
which is just published. 
This fine cow, known in the English Herd 
Book, vol. 8, as Her Grace, and in Allen’s Amer¬ 
ican Herd Book as Grace, was bred by Lewis F. 
Allen, of Black Rock—was white—calved in 
1841; got by Victor, (9,780,) 177; dam, Daisy by 
Bertram II., (3,144,) 21; grandam Delight, by im¬ 
ported Devonshire, (966,) 51; g. grandam Daisy 
by Admiral (1,608) ; g. g. grandam Yellow Rose, 
by young Denton (963) ; g. g. g. grandam im¬ 
ported cow Arabella, by North Star (460) ; g. g. 
g. g. grandam Aurora, by Comet (155); g. g. g. 
g. g. grandam by Henry (301) ; g. g. g. g. g. g. 
grandam by Danby (190). The figures in 
parenthesis are the numbers of the bulls named 
in the English Herd Book, the others, those in 
the American Herd Book. 
Grace, in the possession of Mr. Allen, had one 
calf at fifteen months old . At two years old, he 
sold her to Mr. J. F. Sheafe, of Dutchess county, 
who bred three calves from her. At six years 
of age, she was sold to Ambrose Stevens, who 
bred one calf from her. All these calves were 
bulls; one, only of which, now survives, unfor¬ 
tunately, the others having been killed during 
the depression of prices for shorthorns a few 
years since. Grace had no calf after 1848, and 
as it was supposed that she had done breeding, 
she was commenced to be fed in January 1850, 
and was killed in March, 1851, in New York. 
Grace was shown at Poughkeepsie, in 1844, 
then only three years old, at the show of the 
New-York Agricultural Society; and though 
only a heifer, won the third prize for cows. In 
1847, she was awarded the first prize as the 
best milch cow at the show of the New-York 
State Agricultural Society, at Saratoga; and in 
1850, she won the first prize as the best fat 
cow at the show of the same society at Albany. 
Grace was a fair milker, having yielded 16 to 
19 quarts per day for months; and she gave 10 
quarts per day in April or May, on hay alone, 
nine months after calving; and her milk was 
particularly rich. 
Grace was fed fourteen months, and was 
slaughtered in New York in March, 1851. On 
being killed, it turned out that she was far ad¬ 
vanced in calf, at least six months. Her live 
weight on the day of being slaughtered, was 
