Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1854-11-02
nF We find the following article II
!. ! M Ynrk Trihune:

Sir, you don't know now 10 pio".
aW6at meL- doayeu. meansd don't
know how to plow. that have been. man
and boy, Fifty years following the
plow?" -
Yes, sir. I mean yon. l do not dis
pute the length of time you hays fol-
to.ced the plow, but you have never got
up to it yet. You don't know how to
Sir, do you mean to insult me- p -
Notat all, only meant to assure you
Of the fact. ~; ..;,El g
This is a specimen of conversation
with an old farmer, not a great way
from New York, who felt insuited be-
cause we told him that he did not know
- 20 nIow Let ne-sss &c he did did =
He was at work on a piece of ground
that might be termed sandy loan,
though it was once a clayey loan, but
nearly all the clay had been washed ont
of it, because it never had been plowed
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 plow had never entered, and
which was never turned up by the COM
mon plow, because the owner said that
would spoil the land. 10
L guess l know, for / have tried it;
and I wouldn't give cent for one of
your new-fangled ploys., 7 /
And yet he felt insulted when told
that he did not know how to plow. -.
There seems to be a general impress
sion that everybody knows how to plow;
that even the farmers boy, or any
body's boy, as soon as his head gets
above the plow handles, instinctiyely
understands the business perfectly
Now Ihazard the assertion that not one
farmer or farmers laberer in ten knows
how properly to perform this opera
tion.'
, Certainly if he only plows four in
ches when he might plow fourteen, he
does not know how to plow. If he
plows all his hill-sides up and down, he
does not know how to plow; for every
furrow should be drawn absolutely
level. ,--- -Q---r-.r
What crooked, long rows or short
rows? How a field would lookp q
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
drunken mems paths
Let them look. so they are not. If
you know how to plow, you won't get
drunk, nor plow your land on purpose
to wash away, because some old granny
tells you that you must plow straight.
Making crooked burrows is not crooked
.ploBing; that is, in and out-sometimes
three burrows in one and sometimes
three feet apart. 1 --a s,'g
If you know how to plow, you never
will plow 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 plowman ever plows his
head lands while turning the team
That is work to be done after the other
part is finished.
When ! see farmer constantly ri
ding upon his plow- handles, that it may
not go too deeply, or lifting and pressing
forward, to force It into the ground, or |
running it upon the wing, or Landslide, |
to govern the wedth of his furrow, | am
led to think he does not understand |
regulating the draft |
If such man knows how to plow, he
don't know what a good plow is, or he
would get one.
If a man plows loose, friable soil in
the fall, or if he does not plow a stiff !
clay so as to let it freeze, it is because
he don't know hew to plow; for one
will blow away in winter and the other
will disintegrate and become friable.
Perfect plowing consists in string
and thoroughly pulFerizing 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 plow must be adapted to the
work to be done. The idea of uni
versal plow is one of the most ridicu-
lous facilities ever argued in favor of by
farmers. No man ever did argue so
that knows how to plow. There is
scarcely farm of a hundred acres that
does not require dozen different kinds
of plows. A first rate sod plow is not
good stubble-turning plow; and neither.
of them is fit to plow among corn. A
sub-soil plow is absolutely indispensa- I
BE upon every farm, and no farmer
should be without double mold board
plow, which he should know how to use
in opening out surface drains through
every field that is not already under
drained with tile-drains. |
Of all the class of right, cheap plows, {
for working with one horse, we look up !
on the old fashioned shovel plow, made
with a STEEL blade, and not a clumsy
piece of casting, as one of the most
useful plows on a light, easy-working
soil. For the last plowing of fallow
for wheat, with quick walking horse, ;
it is excellent; for plowing for turnips t
it is frst-rate. and for plowing corn it t
will always be a faEorite implement. K
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Wholesale MURDER AND Su1cIDE.-
By the late foreign arrivals, we have
the following sanguinary item from
Italy: A military man was in love with {
ayoung lady whom he could not obtain :
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