FURROWLESS PLOUGHING.

Otago Witness, Issue 3099, 6 August 1913, Page 17

FURROWLESS PLOUGHING.

Any square or oblong field (states the Orange Judd Fanner) may be ploughed better and more quickly without dead furrows than with them. The common method of ploughing in narrow lands, with a dead furrow for each strip, should be abandoned.

THE FURROW METHOD. Beginning at ono side near the end, pace the distance across the field, then pace back one-half the distance. Make a mark there. “If the field is 200 paces wide it will bo 100 paces to the centre. Go to the end opposite the centre mark and pace inward 97 paces, keeping on a level with thc_ mark. At this intersection place a mark. Now go to the opposite end of the field and do the same tiling, setting up a stake at the intersection that can bo seen from the first mark. Start to plough at the first mark, and plough straight to the stake, but not beyond it. Turn and plough back, throwing the furrows together, and repeat until the ploughed land is six paces wide. Lip to this time you must not plough across the end. As soon as you have the six paces s' mi will have balanced the three paces you were short at the ends, and will now be equidistant from the sides and ends of the field. “ Next begin to plough across the ends, and continue until the field is finished. The land will all bo thrown inward, with not a

FURROWS AVOIDED, dead iarrow in the field. If the field is largo or square it may bo ploughed in two lands, in which case there will bo only one dead furrow.”