China's Transition Into the 21st Century: U.S. and PRC Perspectives

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ...The plow is also too low every way for a seveninch furrow, and is completely buried. We land side sole is lifted an inch or two from its proper level position in the furrow channel, and that the plow inclines very much to run on the point of the share. Fig. 32 represents a land side elevation, and lig. 33, a plan of stuble plow, No. 37. There is a larger size, No. 38, adapted to deeper work than the plow here represented. The surface line, fig. 32, shows the position of this plow in a seven-inch furrow. The handles are of good length, though shorter than those DftheNo. 72 plow; the beam is high and arching; it is mounted with a short draft rod and a dial clevis, adapted to give the plow a wide range, both landing and earthing. The perpendicular height from the base line to the under side of the beam, immediately forward of the standard, is 17 inches, Fig. 34. which enables the plow to make its way among rank stubble, corn stalks, &c, without choking. The fin cutter is an excellent point in this plow. By making an easy, clean cut from the land, the furrow is not encumbered with clods of earth rolling down from the land side, as they are apt to do where the furrow is inches deep, of the same general form and proportions with the one here represented. The handles, fig. 36, are long and raking, the beam is high, giving a space of 17 inches forward of noticeable that the furrows are nicely laid for the reception of the seed grain; that the furrow slice is all taken up and forced over to an inverted position and there it stays; and that the furrow channel is en-tirely cleaned out for the recep tion of the next furrow. It impossible, however, to repre-sent these practical matters ex-actly on paper; we can on represent them generally. Fig. 35...