. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. CROSS-PLOWING, DRILLING, AND RIBBING LAND. 117 it meddles with the subsoil, which it is the special object of trench-plowing to disturb. Deep-plowing will be very well executed by one common plow following another in the same furrow; and when the substratum is free, this is a very good way of stirring up the soil to the moderate depth of 10 or even 12 inches. (1729.) The 3 and 4-horse plows should not be inconsiderately employ- ed in cross-plowi
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. CROSS-PLOWING, DRILLING, AND RIBBING LAND. 117 it meddles with the subsoil, which it is the special object of trench-plowing to disturb. Deep-plowing will be very well executed by one common plow following another in the same furrow; and when the substratum is free, this is a very good way of stirring up the soil to the moderate depth of 10 or even 12 inches. (1729.) The 3 and 4-horse plows should not be inconsiderately employ- ed in cross-plowing in spring, because, either mode of plowing occupying a considerably longer time with the same number of draughts, and employ- ing more horses than ordinary plowing, it cannot be prudently employed on land that is immediately to be occupied by an early spring crop, such as beans, though the time in which potatoes, turnips, and fallow are re- spectively finished, will afford plenty of leisure to have the land appropi'ia- ted to them deeply cross-plowed in the best manner. (1730.) Next as to drilling. This is a form of plowing very different from the ordinaiy^ but it is not unlike that mode of plowing stubble in some Fis. THE MODE OF PLOWING SINGLE DRILLS. parts of the country which is represented by fig. 142, and which I alluded to only to condemn. The principal reason for my condemnation of it was that, while it professed to turn up the soil to the action of the atmosphere, it buried more than half of it untouched by the plow, thus in a great meas- ure running counter to its own avowed object. On compariuf fig. 313, with fig. 142, the form of the two modes of plowing are somewhat similar but their structure, that is, the state of the soil within and without, they are very different. In fig. 142, the gi'ound h is quite solid and unmoved from the state in which it had borne crops, and the moved parts a are full of stubble and weeds. The lines of the drills c are quite irr
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