. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 292 THE BOOK OF THE FARM WINTER. the open furrow z y is left between tbem, and the full ridge z o z \& then completed. And so on with every other feering in the field. Had the feering Inien set off the breadth of a half-ridgeâthat is, 1\ feetâin the line of i h, from a to // and from c to /, this half-ridge could only have been plowed by all the furrow-slices being turaed over toward /t /, and the plow returning back empty, thus losing half
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. 292 THE BOOK OF THE FARM WINTER. the open furrow z y is left between tbem, and the full ridge z o z \& then completed. And so on with every other feering in the field. Had the feering Inien set off the breadth of a half-ridgeâthat is, 1\ feetâin the line of i h, from a to // and from c to /, this half-ridge could only have been plowed by all the furrow-slices being turaed over toward /t /, and the plow returning back empty, thus losing half its time. (647.) As a means of secuinng perfect accuracy in measuring off the breadths of ridges at right angles to the feerings, lines at right angles to J'c should be set off across the field, from the cross-table and poles set at d and a, in the direction of d t and s^ v, and a fuiTow made by the plow in each of these lines, before the breadths of the feerings are measured along them. Most people do not take the trouble of doing this, and a very care- ful plowman renders it a precaution of not absolute necessity, but every proficient farmer will always do it, even at the saciifice of a little time and some trouble, as a means of securing accuracy of work. (648.) As the plow completes each feering, the appear laid over as at i?i and n. While one plowman proceeds in this manner to feer each ridge across the field, the other plowmen commence the plowing of the land into ridges; and, to afford a number of jilowmen space for begin- ning their work at the same time, the feering-plowman should be set to his work at least half a day in advance of the rest, or more if the number of plows is gi-eat or the ridges to be feered long. In commencing to plow the ridges, each jilownian takes two feerings, and begins by laying the fur- row-slices of the feerings together, such as >n and n, to form the crowns of the future ridges. In this way one plowman lays together the f
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