. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 27. View of the movement of two furrow slices as turned by the "Michigan" or sod and subsoil plow. Kendall & Whitney's No. 3, Side-hill, and Nourse, Mason & Co.'s Side-hill, No. 83, resembled each other in general construction, and being tried on slightly sloping sod, did poor work. Isaiah Fry, North Berwick, No. 4. This, the Foxcroft plows, and those of J. W. Hanson, were quite similar in general appearance and form. It cut a slice 7^ bj 15
. Agriculture of Maine. ... annual report of the Secretary of the Maine Board of Agriculture. Agriculture -- Maine. MAINE STATE SOCIETY. 27. View of the movement of two furrow slices as turned by the "Michigan" or sod and subsoil plow. Kendall & Whitney's No. 3, Side-hill, and Nourse, Mason & Co.'s Side-hill, No. 83, resembled each other in general construction, and being tried on slightly sloping sod, did poor work. Isaiah Fry, North Berwick, No. 4. This, the Foxcroft plows, and those of J. W. Hanson, were quite similar in general appearance and form. It cut a slice 7^ bj 15 inches, and did good work—appeared to be well made. L. Whitjian, Winthrop, Nos. 21 and 22. The mold-board is medium, neither convex nor concave, the plows are easy to hold, and did fair work; but the cutting being perpen- dicular, the grass was not perfectly covered. The point is some- what faulty—in other respects the plows are very like those of T. Yarney & Son, described Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Maine. Board of Agriculture; Maine State Pomological Society. Annual report. Augusta
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