. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . atter issometimes used bygood farmers withgreat advantage,in giving a slightcovering to freshlysown grass are madeon the crooked-limb plowin the implement now usedin Morocco, (fis-131,) andin the more imperfect onesemployed in Northern In-dia, (figs. 132 and 133,)known as the Punjab andKooloo pIoAvs. In the lessimproved portions of Ger-many, the Baden plow (,) is not much inferiorto the Bull plow of sixtyFig. 133-KooLoo Plow. years ago. A finished mo- dern cast plow, in its diff
. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . atter issometimes used bygood farmers withgreat advantage,in giving a slightcovering to freshlysown grass are madeon the crooked-limb plowin the implement now usedin Morocco, (fis-131,) andin the more imperfect onesemployed in Northern In-dia, (figs. 132 and 133,)known as the Punjab andKooloo pIoAvs. In the lessimproved portions of Ger-many, the Baden plow (,) is not much inferiorto the Bull plow of sixtyFig. 133-KooLoo Plow. years ago. A finished mo- dern cast plow, in its different forms and patents, is immeasurably supe-rior. (Fig. 135.) Nothing marks the improvement of the agriculture of the present strikitigly and distinctly than the variety and perfection of imple-ments for tillage. The soil is now completely under our control, and wecan invert and pulverize it from a mere surface brushing to almost anydesired depth. A common roller will cover grass seed on mellow soil one-fourth of an inch in de[)th; an evenly constructed brush harrow will per-. ^o^=- 292 ILLUSTRATED ANNUAL REGISTER form the samework half aninch deep; afine harrowwith numerousteeth will stii-,pulverize, andturn up theearth one or twoFig. 134-Baden Plow. inches; and a coarser harrow, four inches. Shares new coulter-harrow will invert andpulverize more than twice the depth of a common harrow; the gang-plowstands midway between Shares harrow and the common jjIow. The latter
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