How They Plough in California.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 154, 22 October 1872, Page 7

How They Plough in California.

The fields arc worked with what are called g;tng ploughs, which are simply four, six, or eight plough shares fastened to a stone frame of wood. On the lighter shi eight horses draw a, seven-gang plough, and one such ream hj counted on to put in GiO acres of wheat in t .0 sovmg sea-; m ; or from eight to ten acres per dry. (dipt im dray, near .Meiwd, lias put in tins s?:tsou 4)) > acres with five such teams—has own lands and his own tea ns, A seed sorer is fasten >d in front of the plough, It s rattan the kcul, the ploughs cover it—in I tne work is dome The plough has no handles, and the ploughman is, in fact, only vdinver; lie gu'des the team ; the ploughs do their own work. It ia easy work, and a i;ii iri if his legs are egn i! t > the walk, is as goof a ploughman as auvbodv—for the e im birrs the coram', and the plough is not hj ndl-d f." all. It is a strikin; sight to see ten eight-horse teams foil iwing each other, over a van. plain, cutting “ lands” a mile long, and when all have passed, leaving a tr.vc*. 40 fed wide of ploiudu’d "round. On

'i> ■ - heavier soil Hie jirox-si is somewhat d ft A'l eis/ht-horse to:mi moves a four- : )don_d, and yets over about six acres n.T d:iy. Tie semi is then sown by a maehine which scat.tor it. forty feet, and sows from 75 Id') acres ii a dr;, and the yronml is then harrowed an( oriRS-liarmwod. When the farmer :n tlnsv alloy has done his whiter so;in;; lie turns his team and men into other s'rmrad, wnielihe is to su inner fa'low. This lie can do Iron the first of March to the middle or May; and by it he secures a ronmnerat've cro[ for the followin'.; year, even i the s-'-ison is fry. Tais discovery is of in- ! estimable importance +o the fanners on the • drier jr.rtsof tl uv yu at 3ln ins. Ex] 1 vii me I has now drn.nnsraia d c (inclusively tint if | they plon; hj their lard in the snrinen hj t it j lie until tie wnitc rams come (n, then sow their wheat and hivrmv it in. tinware sure | of a (vo]'; ami Ihfisinnmcr will lave killed every weed besides.- -tickufific American.

It if! stak'd that fee Emperor Russia contemplates uniting the Caspian with the Rlaerc «r Enxnie s. aby means of a canal, which would be about.4ol) miles lung, are bike S’X years to (ompete, This propel is worthy of one of the yTeit*s( powers on our globe. Move than one oped f s subst vveil by it. It secures entranee b the be,art of Russia tor the commerce oi Use Wirld without neci ss:tilling tiio transhipment if goods, the (’as man and the Voigt liehig na-igabh; altogether more titan 21100 nnles. It \j]l t . nj d)!e Russia to concentrate greater inilit.vy strength upon the southern shores of the C isdan and evitit in s>o miles of the Persian (hip y n ,i in ,,tlier object is said to he the replenish in <r of the waters of the inland sea, whicllan; showing a subsidence year by rear, tliroauiing in the course of time the destruction c' the Tishina business, which now gives snpppf. attd sniplovment to hundreds of theus-uds of the Russian people. The Caspian is S f ce t lower than the Black Sea by latest mcasvrcmcnts. At R ingiora, Canterbury, a. nm, w ho assaulted a bailiff while outraged iii tb eXecui tiou of his duty, Las been lined in the full I penalty of £2O, with the alternative tf three ; months’ imprisonment.