The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1913-06-12

\ The field was 40 rods wide and
rods long or $50 feet by 800 feet. TIL
plowman had educating head o
" him, and he figured little bit on jus
how to lay out the field SO when tn
finished he would come out at the CO
=. ner gate without running over an
plowed ground.
;. Naturally he needed some room Z
: turn on at the ends, so he first mes
q sured off the width Of nine roundst 6
feet from the fence at either end o
I the field. This Of course decided tn
, distance to be left at the side also, s,
a stake was set at each corner So fee
each way from the fences. That lief
a width Of 534 feet to be plowed II
lands" and this equaled almost ex
actly 45s burrows.
Now in laying out the lands 1t isn't
always possible to come out just ev'
en-. Sometimes, in a tough spot one
plow has to be lifted for awhile.
Another time, perhaps, the tractioneer
gets the front furrow little wide on
one side and little narrow the 9TH
err. However, the plan must be good
or the result can never be, so this
plowman did the best he could.
He had three problems: first, he
wanted to back-furrow and finish
each land at the starting end OF the
field. Second, he wanted to be sure OF
blowing out the remainder OF his land
at the finishing trip so as to leave a
smooth dead furrow. And third he did
not want several plows to hang over
on the other land on the last time
through. and drag their points in the
loose dirt. Added to that he made
practise Of pulling one less piow than
usual when stricking out new land.
In order to get In all these points, he
decided on odd widths for his lands,
namely, 14O, 152 and 166 burrows, cor
responding, respectively to ABOUT 1863,
III and 1874 feet.
BY planning on but FIVE plows for
the finishing trip for either of the two
out side lands, he had one to drop in
occasionally where the ground had
been skimped on former rounds. But
II his driver had not been very care.
full all along this enc plow would hard |
ly have been enough in places. With |
a little practice the dead burrows will |
be left clearly marked, and even an
work can be compared fav-
Drably with his first attempt with a
horse-plow.
The plows were lifted at either
lead-land, the outfit turning on UNI
Dlowed ground. This brought the last
Trip back toward the corner nearest
he gate. When the outfit all but
reached the headland, the plowman
began at the rear end of this string
If levers, and the lifting OF the plows
n this order left the furrow ends on
diagonal instead Of square across
Ike all the others. The tractioneer
low swung around a circle to the left
md came in at right angles to the fur
'ows. This time the plowman follow
I'd the usual order but dropped his
blows more slowly, hence there was
mother diagonal. This process was
twice at each of the four cor.
lers, and on the third trip the plows
we're not lifted at all except the right
land one at the sharpest turns.
In swinging around the curves this
way 1t was inevitable that a triangle
n each OF the four corners should be |
eft unplowed. Yet, like the few ker.
nels of wheat that seem like h hail.
storm when blown through a wind |
stacker, these triangles seem bigger
than they are. The one in ene starting
corner is all but wiped out the last
time when the outfit comes down the
fence and cuts out full strip to every
Even disregarding this, and
every foot of ground left
after h very easy curve has been
made, the total in each corner amount
to trifle under $500 square feet or
less than .0S acre. Four corners mean
less than one.third of an acre either
wasted or plowed out by other
means, Two horses and man are sup
posed to pillow two acres a day with
walking pillow and could surely do
the four corners In three hours.
Against this matter OF the corners,
let us figure on the time OF blowing
the whole. 1t would take the two hor-
ses and man seven and half days
or three horses and man five to five
and half days, at cost of cents
per hour for each horse and is cents
per hour for the man-s1 .4S to 81 55
per acre besides C pillow cost OF about
s cents per acre.
The tractor will net, at the lowest
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