Vhe RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
275' 
A Labor-saving Sled 
Fjirmors will bo busy this S|)ring, and 
almost anything that will save labor, 
will be welcome. I have a sled made in 
the form of a stone boat that I used when 
I was clipiiing blossoms from my straw¬ 
berry plants, and my nearest neighbor 
saw me using it and said lie wanted it 
to thin his corn. I loaned it to him and 
he thinned nearly all of his corn with it. 
I’ersonally I have never thinned any corn 
with it. but 1 have clipped blossoms, and 
I know it is a labor-saver in that line. 
The main thirf, 'p a slow horse to hitch 
to it. drive by 1l-c .side of the row with 
one hand, and cl'iji with scissors in the 
other. I clipped two acies of dandy and 
.Toe .Tohnsons in three hours, and did not 
get the backache either. 1 don’t believe 
that a man could clip Superiors, for they 
bud so close to the ground. 
The way I made mine I used board 
five feet long for the bottom or running 
Handy Sled 
board. To this i nailed two side pieces 
feet long and five iiiclo's wide, sawed 
the front in the shape of sled riinneivs and 
nailed an eight-inch board on this to jire- 
vent dirt from rolling in on the driver. 
1 bored two one-inch holes, one in each of 
the side pieces about si.v inches back from 
front of sled, put an iron rod through and 
a chain around that, to hitch horse to, 
and this is also t!sed for a foot rt'st. In 
between side pii'ces about a foot from 
hack, nail a board for a back, have it 
high enough so it will hit a man about 
two inches below the shoulder blades. It 
can be made any width, according to the 
one who i.s going to use it, a little wider 
than the hips. The one I have is 1<» 
inches wide. mokuax a. wii.i.iams. 
Delaware. 
are doing, (tutside of a somewhat limited 
territory in the South .and West, it would 
be almost imitossible to find a left-hand 
plow. 
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W^igg^ Crops of Better Fruit 
A Defense of the Right-hand Plow 
The decision of plow m.anufacturers to 
discontinue making the left-hand [ilow 
seems to have stirred up no little opjiosi- 
tion from the advocates and users of the 
left-hand plow. Now all this (piestion 
iihout left and right-hand plows resolves | 
itself into tlie particular manner in which 
the team is harne.ssed and hitched. The I 
left-handed plowman seems to use but one ! 
line, which is attached to the furrow 
horse. From this lead or furi’ow horse ;i 
connection is made with the off or land 
horse by means t»f what is called a bai'- 
ring stick att.iched to the rings of each 
bridle bit, wdiich keeps the team together. 
So, after all, this plowing business is 
altogether a matter of habit and custom. 
In Maryland and e.astern and central 
Virginia, where I have farmed, I never 
.saw a left-hand plow at work. Here in 
the Virginia Piedmont country farmers 
generally are using left-hand plows. If 
1 must use one lu're in order to be fash¬ 
ionable, I shall have to learn how, which, 
of course, I can do if nece.ssary. 
'I’he poii^ I wish to make is this: the 
right-hand plow will do just as good work 
as file left-hand jdow if the team is prop¬ 
erly harne.ssed and hitched and the ])low- 
man knows his business. Put a pair of 
double-harness driving lines (leather oi‘ 
rope) on your team, then pass thes<‘ 
lines over your right shoulder and around 
your back and under your left arm. With 
a team thus properly barne.ssed and 
hitched to a plow a good job of plowing 
ought to be done, no matter whether it 
he a h‘ft or right-hand plow. 
Nelson (’o., Virginia. .r. n. WEixs. 
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The Plow Discussed 
I notice that soim* one, pi'csunmltly the 
riuiinifaeturm’.s. have heiui saying that the 
majority of faiiuer.s liave never seen a 
left-hand plow. Now tliat is manifestly a 
confession of ignorance on their part, or 
they ar<‘ deliberately misrepresenting the 
facts. Had they said that th»‘ majority 
of farmers Imd never .seen a right-hand 
idow tliere might have been some eltMiient 
of truth ill it, although that is not true 
hecuuse the majority of farmers .see about 
as much and in most inst.inces more than 
.some of these wl.s<* (?) manufacturers. 
Now. my friends. diT not let tliis state¬ 
ment of the manufacturers disquiet you in 
the lemst. It is their privilege to make 
any kind of plow they see lit to make, 
likewise it is our privilege .to buy the kind 
of plow that be.st suits our needs, even if 
we have to induce some new firm to start 
to making plows. Ilemem'her this, they 
do not own tlie universe and they can’t 
forr*e that kind of stuff down my throat, 
Jind I think tliat there are a few million 
more farnn'rs of the same o|>inion as my¬ 
self. Let them make all right-hand plows if 
they dare, hut. when they do, let them 
keep them and then is our time to get 
busy and see that some new firm .starts 
making left-liand plows. We h.ave to pay 
for tlimn, and we are the ones that use 
tluMii ; then why not have what we want. 
Don’t worry: fhe task of getting other 
firms started to making left-hand plows 
will he very easy and sini|)le once they 
see the demand for them. With a tractor 
it makes little or no ilifl'erence whether it 
is ii left-hand or right-hand idow, but 
with a team of horses it makes all the 
(iitferenee in the world. As long as I 
idow with a team I shall usi* a left-hand 
plow, regardless of what a few m.-iniifae- 
turers say to the contrary. Dayton. Ohio, 
was the center of the plow-making indus¬ 
try when I was a boy, and I am not so 
•sure hut it may revive that indu.stry if 
tin* manufacturers make that statement 
k'"'‘d. II. E. E. 
Ohio. 
It. N.-Y.—We are lejirning from (his 
plow' discussion that many of us do not 
realize wLut people who live elsewhere 
A One-man Snow Plow 
I am sending y ui a roiigli sketcli and an 
explanation of an atlaehiiH'nt I rigged 
onto a common plow so I could clean the 
snow out of our road and do a satisfai*- 
tory job alone. The piece of wood A is 
round and about -*•> inches in diameter. 
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and holtcil to tin* plow end clovia in two 
placcK. It is of hard wood, as is also the 
brace H which is h(dt<‘d at (} and II. C 
is the lever of 2-inch liard wood bolted 
through the Indi'S D and F. FF are two 
eye-bolts of %-iuch iron a little larger 
than the Toller A, and slip over the ends 
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jointer. I used part of a sulky plow. 
Have used this rig all this Winter so far 
and it gives entire satisfaction. Of cour.se 
I could use a board on the mold-hoard of 
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