New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-07-28
PLOYING.

Sir you don know how to plow
What me do you mean don't know how to plow,
that have been man and boy fifty years following the
plow ?"
Yes Sir mean you. do not dispute the length OF
time YOU have toored the plow but you have got
up to il yet You don't know how TO pillow.
Sir do you TO insult me -
Not at at OIL only meant you OF the fact.
This il a specimen Of a conversation with old farmer,
not great way from New-York who felt insulted be-
cause we told him that he did know how 10 pow Let
III see he did. He at work upon piece OF ground
that might be termed sandy loan, though il was
clayey loam but nearly all the clay had been washed out
Of IT, because had been powed than four or
five inches deep in the world and was bedded upon sub
soil Of almost pure clay into which sub-soil pillow had
never entered and which turned up by the
mon pow because the said that would spoil the land
IL guess know, for | have tried IL and would nj
give cent for OF your new-fangled pows.'
And yet he felt insued when told that he did not know
how to plow.
Tlere seems to be general impression that yjody
knows how TO pow that even the farmers 6oy or any
tod Us boy his head gets above the pillow han
dies instlnciivey understands the business perfectly
Now hazard the assertion that not farmer farm
atorer zen ka0rs ho~ property to Perform tbs ,Pera-
toA.
Certainly if he only pows four inches when he might
plow fourteen he does know how plow Ii he pows
all his hlsides up and down, he does not know how to
Ilow for every furrow should be drawn absolutely ler
What crooked long rows or short rows How q field
would look"
Let it look. You had better look your sill in the
field than in some brook river floating down 70 the
sea.
Why such burrows would look Ike drunken mems
paths
Let them look, so that they not Ii you know how
TO plow you won get drunk pillow your land pur-
lose wash away because old granny tells you
that you must plow straight. Making crooked burrows
crooked blowing tha IL in and out. sometimes three
furrows in one aud ometiuie- three feet apart.
lfyou know how TO plow you viii plow clay and
in time when iii baked that VII turn mp N
Jumps as hard as brck-ba-
No good plowman plows hi head land. while
turning the That work be done after the other
part il finished
When see farmer constantly riding upoa his pioE
hsndes that II may not - TOO deep, or lifting AMI press
g forward force 1t into the ground running upon
the Wig or aud side 20 govern the width Of his lrrJw
9-qt.."
Ii such knows how 70 pow. he don't know what
a good pillow IT, or be would get one
II blows loose friabe soil N the fall or II he
does not pow stiff clay e' it freeze Il because
De don know how 70 pl,v; for one viii blow away in
winter All the other viii dsntegrate GnI become fra e
Perfect blowing consists in stirring and thoroughly
pulyenzug al tLe sou a gwen depth To effect tb;
tie fuTroWs must BE- parallel OF width and dep.h
aId not TOO far sunt'r.
AID the pow be adapted 10 tie WORK 20 he done
The iea a. universal plow one II tie nos. RI l.eulos
a.larc. ever argued in favor OF By farmers W man
ever did argue that knows how 20 pow. There s
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