. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE PLOW. 263 or sheers, to which is attached the hridle proper S, by means of the draught-holt U ; the sheers forming an adjustment vertically, while the bridle yields it horizontally, by shifting the draught- shackle at S. (533.) The right and left handles are each furnished at A and D with wooden helves fitted into the sockets of the handles. (534.) The general dimensions of this plow are : From the zero-point O to the extremity of the heel T
. The book of the farm : detailing the labors of the farmer, steward, plowman, hedger, cattle-man, shepherd, field-worker, and dairymaid. Agriculture. THE PLOW. 263 or sheers, to which is attached the hridle proper S, by means of the draught-holt U ; the sheers forming an adjustment vertically, while the bridle yields it horizontally, by shifting the draught- shackle at S. (533.) The right and left handles are each furnished at A and D with wooden helves fitted into the sockets of the handles. (534.) The general dimensions of this plow are : From the zero-point O to the extremity of the heel T, 4 inches, and from O forward to the point B/ of the share is 29 inches—giving, as the en- tire length of sole, 2 feet 9 inches. Again, from O backward to the extremity of the handles, the distance is 5 feet 6 inches, and forward to the draught-bolt U 4 feet 4 inches, making the extreme length on the base-line 9 feet 10 inches ; but following the sinuosities of the beam and bandies, the entire length from A' to U' is about 10 feet 6 inches. In reference to the body of the plow, the center of the coulter-box is 15 inches, and the point M of the breast-curve 6^ inches before the zero-point O, both as measured on the base-line ; but, following the rise of the beam, the distance from M to the middle of the coulter-box will be 10| inches. (535.) The hisrhts of the different points, as measured from the base line to the upper-line of the beam and handle, are marked on fig. 51; a few only of these may be repeated here. At the helve of the left handle, the bight is 3 feet 2 inches ; at the same point in the right, it is 3 feet; at the middle stretcher, the difference in bight is only 1^ inches, but it again increases downward till the right handle meets the sole-bar, to which it is bolted. The bight at the point of the beam ia 18 inches, and at the center of the draught-bolt U at a medium 17 inches. The lower edge of the mould-board behind is usually sei at \ inch above the plane of
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