Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1854-09-04
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MONDAY, sEPTEMBER 4, 1854.
PLoUenINa.-sir, you don't know how to

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PLoueu1xa.-sir, you don't know how to
plough.
What me do you mean don't know
how to plough, that have been man and boy,
fifty years following the plough"
Yes, sir. l mean you. L do not dispute the
length of time you have folloiesd the plough,
but you have never got up to it yet. You
don't know how to plough.
+" Sir, do you mean to insult me
Not at all, l only meant to assure you Of tho
fact.
This is specimen of conversation with
an old farmer, not great wssy from New York,
who felt insulted becaese we told him that he
did not know how to plough. Let us see If
he did. He was at work upon a piece of
ground that might be termed sandy loan,
though it was once clayey loan, but nearly
all the clay had been washed out oft, because
it had never been ploughed more than four or
five inches deep in the world, and was bedded
upon sub-soil of almost pure clay, into which
a sub-soil plough had never entered, and
which was never turned up by the common
plough, because the owner said that would
spoil the land.
81 guess l know, for have tried it and 1
wouldn't give cent for one of your new
tangled ploughs.'
did not know how to plough.
/" There seems to be general impression,
that Everybody knows how toplough; that even
the farmers bog or any5ody'S boy, as soon as
his head gets above the plough-handles, in
stnctively understand the business perfectly.
Now 1 hazard the assertion that not one farmer
or farm ia5orer IN ten kaoaos hoao properly to
perform tbls operation"
Certainly if he only ploughs foar inches when
he might plough fourteen, he does not know
how to plough. If he ploughs all his hill
sides up and down, he does not know how to
plough; for every furrow should be drawn a6-
So5utely Ieoel.
"What crooked long rows or short rows
How a field would look 70
Let it look. You had better look at your
soil in the field than in some brook or river,
floating down to the sea.
.'Why such burrows would look like drunk
en- mems paths"
Let them look, so that they are not. IF you
know how to plough, you won't get drunk,
nor plough your land on purpose to wash
away, because some old granny tells you that
you must plough straight. Making crooked
burrows is not crooked ploughing; that is, in
and out sometimes three burrows in one and
sometimes three burrows in one and some
times three feet apart.
plough clay land in wet time, or when it is
baked so that it will turn up in Jumps as hard
as brick bats,
No good ploughman ever ploughs his head
lands while turning the team. That is work
to be done after the other part is finished.
"When l see farmer constantly riding
upon his plough handles, that it may not go
too deep, or lifting and pressing forward, to
force it into the ground, or running it upon
the wing, or Landslide, to govern the width Of
the furrow, am led to think he does not I'M
derstand regulating the draft"
| If such man knows how to plough, he
don't know what good plough is, or he
would get one.
If man ploughs loose, friable soil in the
| fall, or if he does not plough stiff clay SO as
to let it freeze, it is because he don't know
| how to plough; for one will blow away in
winter, and the other will disintegrate and
become friable.
s'Perfect ploughing consists in stirring and
thoroughly pulverizing all the soil to given
depth. To effect this, the burrows must be
parallel, of even width and depth, and not too
far asunder.
And the plough must be adapted to the
work to be done. The idea of universal
plough is one of the most ridiculous fallacies
ever argued in favor of by farmers. No man
ever argue SO that KNOWS HOW 10 ptOuSus
There is scarcely farm of hundred acres
that does not require dozen different kinds
of ploughs. A first rate sod plough is not
good stubble turning ploughi and neither of
them are fit to plough among corn. A BdcssA
soil plough is absolutely indispensable upon
every farm, and no farmer should be without
double mould board plough, which he
should know how to use in opening out sur
face drains through every field that is not al
ready underdrained with tile drains.
OF all the light, cheap ploughs, for work.
ing with one horse, we look upon the old
fashioned shovel plough, made with a steel
blade, and not clumsy piece of cast iron, as
one of the most useful ploughs on light,
easy working soil. For the last ploughing of
a fallow for wheat, with quick walking
horse, it is excellent; for ploughing for tur
nips it is first rate, and for ploughing corn,
will always be a favorite implement.
Reader Do you know how to plough ,
Think-N Y Tribune