Jasper Banner, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1857 — Plowing Headlands. [ARTICLE]

Plowing Headlands.

The practice of plowing headlands at either end of the Held, before finishing the inside, is a very irrational one. Tire principal reason for not doing this, is the increased labor for the team. . “.Coming about ” is the most unpleasant part of plowing/to the team as well as to the driver, and should not be done except on unplowed land. Usually a strip of ! equal width should be left all around the field, till all the harrowing is done, and then plowed) eewed and harrowed by itself, as a finish to«the work of that field. In plowing a square ten acre lot, the team must turn about some 700 times, and every step taken on plowed land vexes the animals, and makes them liable to stumble, cork their feet, crowd each other, or to disengage the harness, and all the reason for enjoying this trouble, is that it undoes work already done, making another plowing of these same headlands necessary.—C., in Ashtabula Tel.