Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1859-12-24
From the New England Farmer.]
THE NEW pL0W.

MEssRs EDITORS Having heard that new
implement of the plow kind was to be tried up
on the intcryale at Charlestown, n. H., four
miles from my residence, on the lth inst,
availed myself of the opportunity to see it test
ed. found the plow in full operation, my old
friend, Mr. Holbrook, of Brattleboro, guiding
its course, though without much effort, for the
plow, when gagged properly, would almost keep
its place in the furrow without guiding. saw
several different sized mould-boards and land
sides, with skim share of cast iron and steel,
some of each kind of metal, lying about upon
the grass near the scene of operations.
This was rather a novelty to see SO many
plows in one. The operation was watched
closely by several of the best farmers of the
neighborhood and it was really new thing
under the sun to see how rapidly one plow could
be changed to another, all, and each one doing
its appropriate work in the best possible man
ner.
There was the deep tiller, without the forward
or skim share, going to the depth of twelve
inches, with a proportional width of furrow
slice, perfectly inverted, flat furrow, and so
along up by change of mould-board, to eight,
six and five inches the draft, of course, lessen-
ing as the change was made to less depth. The
forward share, or skim, was put on with short
Landslide and mould board and the implement
for it went down to the depth of twelve or four
teen inches, throwing the earth up four to six
inches above the level of the inverted flat fur
row sod which had just been turned, leaving it
in the finest condition for pulverization with
the harrow or cultivator. This was the kind OF
plowing that struck my fancy as being the very
best of the best. l tried holding the plow, as
did several others of the lookers-on; it was re-
marked with what ease it held, particularly
when operating in this double form.
/ learned from Mr. H., who think was in
strumental in getting up the models or designs
for the various combinations of this plow, thai
there were thirteen different changes, by merel,
a shift of mould boards, and in some of them q
shift of nd-side; designed to do all kinds o
blowing in the most thorough manner, with thu
same standard and wood work, from bog-mead
ow, through all the grades of surface and soil
down to the smooth and level intervale. Tn,
land where this trial was made, had apparentl,
never been plowed more than five inches deep
and, though intervale, below this shallow deptl
it was tenacious and hard, and of course th
plow could not show easy draft as on sim
liar soils that had been broken and stirred to
greater depth.
The last work of this plow was on stubbl
land, single share short mould board and land
side, with a single pair of horses. 1t WORKED
admirably, leaving fine tilth, so nicely rolle'
together and mixed that the burrows could no
be distinguished or counted, having the appear
ance of finely narrowed or cultivated surface
From the peculiar manner of the curve of tn
mould-board, and roll of the lifted soil in thi
stubble plowing, with the hight of standard,
have no doubt of its turning under withou
clogging almost any amount of green crol
mould, or coarse, strawy manure.
doubt whether there has ever been present
ed to the farmer any one improved implemer