. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . giving the drivera*sulky seat, upon which to ride. This can be done without extra power it., as the wheels will relieve an amount of friction equal to the increasedweight of the driver and the extra gearing. We then have the increased costof the implement to offset against the improved mode of handling it. A plough 33 a 418 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. thus rigged can be run by a class of persons who cannot manage the commonplough, either from being lame, or from want of muscular ability to stand thehard labor of travel over the r
. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1863 . giving the drivera*sulky seat, upon which to ride. This can be done without extra power it., as the wheels will relieve an amount of friction equal to the increasedweight of the driver and the extra gearing. We then have the increased costof the implement to offset against the improved mode of handling it. A plough 33 a 418 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. thus rigged can be run by a class of persons who cannot manage the commonplough, either from being lame, or from want of muscular ability to stand thehard labor of travel over the rough ground, and the handling of the ploughand team. That a plough on wheels can bemade to do better work we have nodoubt. Several patents have been is-sued for sulky ploughs, but, thus far,none have proved practicable. Sev-eral devices or sizes of wheels havebeen more or less used, or applied tothe plough itself, to relieve it of fric-tion, but none of them have come intogeneral use. The next progress inplough-making must be to give the driver a sulky fr* GANG PLOUGHS. Thus far these have not answered the expectations of farmers. They areheavy, liable to clog, and, though run on wheels, nothing appears to have been gained. A plough on wheels thatcan be drawn by two or three horses,and of any width of cut from twelveto sixteen inches, would appear moredesirable. The gang plough, cuttingtwenty to twenty-five inches in theaggregate, requires four horses, andas one of these must walk on theploughed land, it is hard work. Weobserve some improvement of late in their construction that may tend to makethem useful. This mode of ploughing, by using the gang plough, to be followedwith a trench or subsoil plough, will doubtless prove useful. Another yearsexperience is required to arrive at the merits of this mode of ploughing.
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