. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. VARIOUS MODES OF PLOWING RIDGES. 295 and making tlie cvown h an open fuiTow. Cast ridges keep the land in a level state, and can most conveniently be adopted on dry soils. They form a good foundation for drilling upon, or they make a good seed-fur- row on dry land. Lea on light land, and the seed-fuiTow for barley on the same sort of soil, are always plowed in this fasliion. This is an eco- nomical mode of plowing land in regard to time, as it r
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. VARIOUS MODES OF PLOWING RIDGES. 295 and making tlie cvown h an open fuiTow. Cast ridges keep the land in a level state, and can most conveniently be adopted on dry soils. They form a good foundation for drilling upon, or they make a good seed-fur- row on dry land. Lea on light land, and the seed-fuiTow for barley on the same sort of soil, are always plowed in this fasliion. This is an eco- nomical mode of plowing land in regard to time, as it requires but few feerings ; the furrow-slices are equal, and on even ground ; and the horses are always turned inward, that is, toward you. Casting is best performed upon the ilat surface, as then the uniform state of both ridges can be best preserved ; and should the land be desired to be plowed again, it can be cast the reverse way, and the correct form of the ridges still preserved. In this method of casting, no open furrow is more bare of earth than another. (657.) Casting ridges is as suitable plowing for strong as light land, pro- vided the ndges are separated by a gore-furrow. A gore-fuiTOw is a space made to prevent the meeting of two ridges, and as a substitute for an open furrow between them. Its effect is, in so far as the furrow-slices are concerned, like crown-and-furrow plowing, but the difference consists in this, that it turns over a whole ridge, instead of a half-i-idge in each feering. It can only be formed where there is a feering or an open fur- row. The method of making a gore-furrow is shown in fig. 136. Suppose Fig. A GORE-FURIMW. that it is proposed to make one in a feering such as is shown by k I and o -p in fig. 132. Let the dotted furrow-slices a and e, and the dotted line i represent an open furrow such as in fig. 136, of which c is a point in the middle. Make the plow pass between the center of the furrow-sole c and the left-hand dotted fuiTow-
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