The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1121 
Notes on Plowing 
In plowing with a team the first 
requisite of the horses is to keep the 
double-trees even. If the team works 
steadily, rope lines can be used, but when 
the horses are not mated, leather lines 
should be used. Leather lines consist of one 
long Jin' with (wo lines buckled on. The 
long line is attached to the outside ring 
of the bit of each horse, and the buckled 
line to the inside. Extra holes will be 
seen in the long lines, whereby the inside 
line may be taken up or let out, thus 
enabling one to check up or let out 
whichever horse desired. 
Collars of animals should be washed 
frequently with soap and hot water, and 
dusted with alum before harnessing the 
horses. If a horse’s shoulder is galled, 
take alum with you in the field and dust 
it on every half-hour. This will dry up 
the galled spot quicker than any remedy 
we have used. The next thing is to see 
that your horse’s collar fits, and that all 
four traces are even. Muzzles on team 
save a driver energy where ground is 
sward or cover crop. When turning a 
team both lines should be held securely to 
bring the team around even and bear 
your weight on the handle bars. This 
will allow you to start and stop where 
you desire, so as to avoid so much pull¬ 
ing on the plow. 
When weather is warm, light nets for 
the horses’ heads should be obtained to 
lessen the annoyance of the insects. 
Often traces are seen to wear spots on 
horses’ sides and legs. Old cloth tied 
around traces several times with string 
will Sto ' the spots from rubbing till sore. 
In selecting a plow consider your land. 
Do you wish to turn the furrow upside 
down or turn it on edge? In sandy soil 
it is usually turned upside down, but in 
heavy soils on edge. If your team is 
light, choose a light plow with a narrow 
bottom, and if team is heavy vice versa. 
If land is hilly, it may be wise to add a 
side-hill plow. 
Where land is fairly level, the coulter 
wheel attachment should be used, and 
its regulation will be seen to be a very 
simple matter. Where ground has trash 
or short sward, the jointer share should 
be attached. 
We find the plowshares with slip points 
iast longer than the solid shares. The 
point coming with the share can be re¬ 
versed and the other side used. After 
this wears an extra point should be on 
hand. We wear two points down on 
either side to each share used. Our two- 
horse plow has attached to the front of 
the beam a device to make the share go 
shallow or deeper, also to take more or 
less furrow. The first device consists of 
a series of holes run parallel to the beam, 
the lower holes drawing the share up¬ 
ward. For taking a narrow or wider fur¬ 
row a parallel bar with holes run up 
and down and a bolt run through gives 
us a chance to take more or less furrow 
by a few seconds’ work. It. is wise to 
have an old sack to cover the share when 
left overnight iu the field. Coal oil will 
take off rust and machine oil will help 
keen the soil from sticking to the share, 
landside and moldboard. 
When buying shares look to see that 
the metal is of good chilled steel or the 
surface will not scour. Corrugations on 
the surface are evidence of bad finish, and 
will give trouble until worn down. Often 
such corrugations keep wearing as such 
until the share is worn out. I have one 
on the plow at the present time. /When 
buying bolts for the share, see that the 
head fits that particular share, as this 
will prevent proper scouring. 
The moldboard is apt to be discarded 
for not. allowing the sod to turn over 
properly. Pasteboard placed in back of 
it against the framework will bring its 
surface Hush with the new share. 
A heavy plow chain is necessary to 
turn under cover crops and long sward. 
There should be a hook on either end, 
one end nlaced around the beam in hack 
of the jointer, the other to the ring iu 
the single-tree of the furrow horse. The 
chain should drag in the furrow, but not 
enough slack allowed to allow it to hang 
hack and have the sod turned over it. 
The height of the grass will make a dif¬ 
ference in the adjustment of the chain. 
If the grass is less than eight inches add 
the jointer share. It will make a cleaner 
finish. 
In plowing a peach orchard a one-horse 
plow will run closer to the trees than 
two-horse plow. About linve furrows 
turned around each row with one horse 
is _sufficient; the two-horse plow will 
finish the job. In plowing corn stubble 
see that a log has been dragged over the 
stubble in early Spring when the stubble 
Was frozen. 
There are on the market any mimbe 
of riding plows. Some of these will al 
low the plow you use to be attached 
These are light-draft attachments fo 
plows of 12 to 14-inch bottoms. I 
Wrench should be always on the plow 
v\ e hold ours on with a piece of twin 
and an oil can at the end of the row 
I he field on which T am now workinj 
is surrounded by all shades of greeu. Oi 
one side an orchard with oats as cove 
crop is hacked by pine woods througl 
winch a lake shimmers skyward, shadow 
n ! K , 0 T, 'nes of the opposite shore. Bad 
,, ,n°. mowed land lies our own woods 
all Imt leafed out. On the west side lie 
a melon patch, hacked by a strip of bil 
lowing rye. while on the west hill a ne\ 
bungalow like a toy house mocks th 
andseape. Southwest the land slopes t 
tie road, and a peach orchard well kept 
through which chugs a tractor. 
New T orriey. JAMES E. TOOMEY, 
The Matter of Tractor Speeds 
IN SELECTING a tractor it is im- 
* portant to consider the matter of 
speeds—the speed of the engine 
(number of revolutions per minute) 
and also the field speed of the tractor 
(miles traveled per hour). 
Heavy, dusty work, such as plow¬ 
ing, requires a slow-speed engine — 
an engine that will not burn itself 
up and grind out its bearings on 
life-sapping high speeds. 
The Titan 10-20 tractor engine 
loafs along at an easy, comfortable 
speed that is especially well adapted 
to heavy-duty work. 
In the matter of field speeds, it 
has been demonstrated that less 
work is accomplished by a tractor at 
fast speeds than at the normal speeds 
of between 2 and 3 miles an hour, 
for as the speed increases both fric¬ 
tion and plow draft increase. A trac¬ 
tor that will pull four plows with 
ease at two miles an hour will ex¬ 
perience difficulty in pulling half 
as many at double the speed, and it 
travels twice as far even though doing 
less work. As the field speed in- 
^ creases, the strain on both tractor 
and plow increase. And striking a 
buried boulder while traveling rapid¬ 
ly will do much more damage than 
contact at an easy gait. 
The Titan 10-20 has two forward 
speeds — 2]{ and m. p. h. — the 
right field speeds. Think this over 
when considering the purchase of a 
tractor—and see your nearby Inter¬ 
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