. 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 RIDGES. 293 whole ridges, on the right sides of which all the furrows lie one way, from a to h, reading from the right to the left; and on the left sides of which all the furrow-slices lie in the opposite direction, from a to h, reading fro the left to the right; and both sets of furrow-slices meet in the crowi hhh. The open furrows aaa are finished off with the mould or hint-eu furrows, the method of making which is des
. 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 RIDGES. 293 whole ridges, on the right sides of which all the furrows lie one way, from a to h, reading from the right to the left; and on the left sides of which all the furrow-slices lie in the opposite direction, from a to h, reading fro the left to the right; and both sets of furrow-slices meet in the crowi hhh. The open furrows aaa are finished off with the mould or hint-eu furrows, the method of making which is described in the next figure. (651.) The viouhl or Mnt-cnd fun'ow is made in this way : When th. last 2 furrow-sHces of the ridges a a, fig. 134, are laid over, the bottom ol the open furrow is as wide as represented by the dotted line c, extending Fig. AN OPEN FLâ Klll_l\^⢠\VrrH M') OR HIST-KND FU KS. from a to a. The plow goes along this wide space, and first lays over a triangular furrow-slice h on one side, and another of the same, h, on the other side, up against and covering the lower ends of the last fuiTOw-slices a a, and by which operation the ground is hollowed out in the shape rep- resented at c by the sole of the plow. The dotted line d shows the level of the ground in its former state, before it was begun to be ridged up, and the furrow-slices a a show the elevation attained by the land above its fer- mer level by plowing. {Q52.) A ridge that has been plowed the reverse to gathering up from the flat is said to be split, which is the short phrase for crovm-and-furrow plowing. (653^ This kind of plowing o^crown-and-furroio can easily be perfornied on land that has been gathered up from the flat. In this case, no feering is required to be purposely made, the open furrows answering that pur- pose. Thus, in fig. 133, let the furrow-brows d be laid over to meet to- gether in the open furrow a, and it will be found that they will just meet, since t
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