Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-06-30

plant may receive the heat Of the sur
and at night II will give off that hea
and probably save your plant.
i And il you have late plants, &c
them in beside the rocks or lay rock
around them, and they can gain tim
to ripen when otherwise the fros
would kill them.
| After clearing off the ground, ploW
ing comes next. The twelve years tn
writer has spent in this region ha
demonstrated that you have been sub
lject to all kinds of "sells." Articles
that could not be given away ELSEWHERE
have been shipped down here in orde
to sell both the article and the pur
chaser. This has been especially true
in regard to agricultural implements
and most especially in ploughs.
The writer has seen dealers selling
ploughs that were only calculated te
vex the farmer, torture the ground
and kill teams. The dealer himself
had most likely been imposed upon,
and was not Intentionally deceiving
his customer.
In the working of good plough,
there must be capacity to turn . rea-
sonable furrow, with lightness OF
draught and steadlnsss of movement,
that is to say, it must be easy on the
team, and have good cutting, lifting,
and turning power. These will arise
from the angle between the land side
and the mold-board, and from the reg
ularity of the slope of the latter,
which will distribute the work Of lift
ing and turning the furrow over the
whole surface of the mold-board. 1t
may be remarked just here that the
share and Golfer cut the furrow, the
mould board lifts and turns it, and the
land side steadies the Golfer, share and
mold-board at their work.
There is law as immutabls as any
one that governs the sun, moon and
stars, which fixes the angle between
the land side and mold-board of per-
feet plough, at thirty and one-half de-
grees.
At that angle there is perfect COM
of ease in draft, and Of cut
ting, lifting and turning power. And
it is q curious fact-but it is a fact
that at this angle of elevation, thirty
and one-half degrees. a gun will throw
q ball farther with the same charge OF
powder than it will at any other angle.
Actual experiment has proven both
these facts, but no man can show why
a body moving at that angle should
meet less resistance than at any other.
To get at this thing, good plough, If
from the outside of the land
side square across to the outside of the
mold board at the lower edge, will not
exceed the one-third of the length OF
the mold board. If that proportion is
exceeded, the draft comes
too squarely against the ground, and it
will not turn SO wide, and will be hard
On the team.
The Oliver Chilled Plough No. 20 is
the best known to the writer, who has
seen SEINE thousands of acres turned
over by that.implement.
It is the best because Its angle APP
proaches most nearly to that of per feet
iraft. 1t has other excellencies be-
sides. It cuts the soil so as to relieve
The landslide from rubbing, and there
by lightens the draft.
The cutting, lifting, and turning
processes all start at the same time,
and SO aid each other, aud the even
ness of securing, and the metal being
very fine in the grain takes fine pol
sh.
Owing to mania for getting over
which even our best
farmers are not -exempt,-the Oliver
is probably as nearly q perfect plough
as the present state of public sentiment
will warrant.
And, remember, the writer does not
limit the prevalence of this sentiment
to Southeast Missouri. He has seen it
wherever he has been.
In the meantime the field for compe-
lion in pleughs Is fully open. Some
time ogo Mr.. E. G. Tual, of Arcadia,
showed the writer q mold board and
and side of plough that certainly are
fine. If he can be pur-
,uaded to put up plough OH those
irons, he can probably get up one that
will leave the Oliver little, if any,
thing, of which to boast, and if he
starts on the work he will go through
with it well.
In regard to the use of ploughs a
lew points may be made. Do not
EAST to the mOles and the bats your old
pull tongues and shovel ploughs. Put
hem in good case, and when by the
use of some good turning plough, you
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