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Concerning Gang Plows

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Parent Issue
Day
19
Month
March
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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There is more than one make of gang plow. Some givc satisfaction, and some do not. This fact is reason enough for the advice, "Do not onder any circumstances bny a gang plow until you have thoroughly tried it, and you positively know that it is the thing you need. " It is given by an advocate of gang plows, who writes to Kansas Farmer as follows : A good gang plow will save a man's j wages and board every day it runs, and ! the man who has to hire help can soon I make it pay for itself. With four good j horses on a reliable gang plow, with a flfth horse following behind drawing i one section of a hairow, one man can plow and harrow four to five acres per : day and be amplyfresh enough at night to rustle up bis chores in good sliape. The gang plow that was returncd here (Morantowu, Kan. ) was not liked be-' canse four horses could not travel abreast comfortably. The outside horse must go in the furrow, and the plows must trael between him and the second horse, and. as the center of draf t is tuetween the second and third horses it will be seenhow awkward a four horse team would travel. Wherever three horses could draw this gang plow it gave good satisfaction, but all seemed to want four. One man used three behind and two on the lead, but they took too much land in turn ing. The gang plow that was well liked had a patent set of eveners, so that four of the very largest horses could travel freely abreast, and the plow had no land sides, all friction that usually comes on the land side being carried on a crooked castor wheel that ran behind the plows in the furrow, and this wheel was connected by a twisted chain to the tongue in such a way that when the horses turni ed one way the wheel carried the plows the other way. This improvement made very light draf t, and also f acilitated the turning at the end, as when the horses I swung info the return furrow the caster I wheel carried the plows out and around, bringing the plows into exact position to start in. The Kansas Jack Kabbit. Kansas dealers in hides have at length awakened to the fact that jack rabbit hides, known in commerce as American hare pelts, are in great demand in the easteru markets, and notices similar to the followingare appearing in many papers throughout the state: "We will buy nicely handled cased jack rabbit skins at 3 cents each; opened or damaged, half price; culis and pieces 8 cents a pound; cottontails at 5)4 cents a pound. Must be perfectly dry and free of meat. " The skins of the jack rabbits are nsed for making bats. The best quality of hats, says the New York Times, are made from fur, and the fur has heretofore been obtained from Australia, where the rabbits are successfully disputing the possession of the country with the human inhabitants. Staking Trees. A contributor to American Gardening writes: I take 2 inch chestnut planks and have them ripped into strips 2 inches wide, sharpen one end, and, after starting a hole with "a bar, merely to get the course, drive the stake home with a maní. Used as shown, it answers every purpose that three stakes do, keeping the tree from swaying in either tion, takes but one-third of the material and labor, and, when drive in line with the trees, is not unsightly or in the way of the cultivator or hand hoe. I also wrap the tree with a piece of matting and ruake it fast to the stake ■with tarred cord. I think it advisable to remove the wrap at least once each season, as I have found borers at work ander it in several cases. Here and There. Irrigation has proved a gratifying success in Michigan. The arid región, according to a recent estímate, embraces two-fif ths of the area of the country and includes 616,000,000 acres of iand that can ba benefited by water. Cotton in Oklahoma was the subject of an address delivered at Perry, O. T. , by Professor Fields. The movement for increase of beet sucrar production is assuming large proportions. New factories in the distant west and in Wisconsin are being established. A shortage is reported in western honey. The San José scale has been reported in Ohio. The Ohio State association is a newly fonned organization. On the 1,000 acre farms of the west irrigation by flooding is prevalent. On small tracts the usual plan is to run thO water through furrows between the rows of trees or crops.

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Ann Arbor Democrat