. 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 RIRGES. 299 60 yards asunder, the plows would have to go round c d and e/until they reached h and i respectively, in doing which they would have to travel in a progressively increasing distance until its extreme point from h to i reached 30 yards/or every furrow-slice laid over. Thus is imposed on men and horses a great deal of traveling for the little work actually done. (665.) Another mode of plowing, which I shall now
. 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 RIRGES. 299 60 yards asunder, the plows would have to go round c d and e/until they reached h and i respectively, in doing which they would have to travel in a progressively increasing distance until its extreme point from h to i reached 30 yards/or every furrow-slice laid over. Thus is imposed on men and horses a great deal of traveling for the little work actually done. (665.) Another mode of plowing, which I shall now describe, is twice- gathering-up. Its effect may be seen by looking at fig. 139, where it will Fig. TWICE-GATHERING-UP. be observed that the fuiTOw-slices rest above the level line of the gi-ound. It may be practiced both on lea and red-land. On red-land that has al- ready been gathered up from the flat, it is begun by making feerings in the crowns of the ridges, as at b, fig. 133. The furrow-slices of the feerings are laid together, and the ridges plowed by ^ ridged, in the manner of gathering up from the flat. The -^ ridge left by the feerings at the sides of the field must be plowed by themselves, even at the risk of losing time, because it would not do to feer the first ridge so as to plow the ^ ridge as directed to be done in the first-gathering-up, in fig. 132, around the feer- ing of the \ ridge f c, because the furrows betwixt y and i, if plowed in the contrary direction to what they were before, would again flatten the ground, whereas the furrow-slices from e tOjf and from z to i, being plowed in the same direction as foi'merly, the ground would thereby be raised above the level of i f, and disfigure the plowing of the whole ridge z e. Gathering up from the flat preserves the flatness of the ground; and the second gathering up would also preserve the land in a flat state, though more elevated, were there depth enough of soil, and the furrow-slices pre- served of
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