PLAIN PLOUGHING V. FALSE OUT.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 377, 29 July 1874, Page 5

PLAIN PLOUGHING V. FALSE OUT.

(To the Editor.) Sir, — In looking over your issue of the 25th inst., I sco that an invitation for a discussion was readily responded to by an advocate for the false cut style of ploughing. I was glad to sea him so openly and freely express his opinions on the subject, and I give him credit for his liberal spirit of encouraging both systems, but it seems to me that one who wishes to encourage both sides of the matter should show the merits and faults of both systems so that people might rightly understand them, but in naakiag his observations his liberality is rather limited, he shows the fa-alts of the one style while lie dwells entirely on Cue merits of tho other. As an advocate for plain ploughing I will just ask him a few questions, and 1 hope he will answer them in the same free spirit in which ho made his former observations. About 25 years ago when I first bogan to plough in fche old country I was told to loosen and clear out tho bottom of the furrow as well as leave it regular on tho top, otherwise the ploughing was no good, but perhaps that old fashioned idea will not find very much sympathy with the high cutting ploughmen of the Tuapeka district-; yet, 1 would ask my friend of the false-cut if in a district like this where so much sorrel and other nosious weeds are so deeply rooted in the aoil, his false-cut system is the best method of cutting and destroying them, or is ifc the best plan of loosening and tilling the ground, or can he tell me what is the average depth of the false cut furrow ploughing, dimensions beiug six inches deep. In giving him all due credit for the fine high shoulder that it sets up, I would ask him what is the iise of that equally high shoulder which ifc leaves in the bottom oC the furrow. Perhaps it is to regulate tho under water or some other such object. In referring to the grand scientific placing of the irons, I have seen the same plan condemned more than twenv years ago; aud I would ask him now if working on that principle is easier for the horses or for the man who holds the plough, or will the ground be easier to plough the following season ? I hop 9my friend will be plain on fche6e points. In referring to his remarks on tho ploughing match of I lie 17th inst., I did uofc hear tho nonsense that people wore talking, so I cannot comment on it, but I admit to some extent the faults fchat he mentions. Some of the furrows were not so well turned as they ought to be, but, in charity to the ploughmen, the ground was hard with frost, and in some cases harder than others ; but Ido n ofc altogether agree with him in saying that the plain ploughing had no shoulder to bury the seed. I will refer him to some of the plain ploughing on the north side of the field, and although ifc is rather rough in appearance, ifc has shoulder enough to cover all the seed that Mr. Gascoigne is likely to put in it. In reference to the false cut, lam willing to grant all the advantages he shows in its favor. But, at the same time, if he is willing to test the matter, let him take a high cutting plough, and all the paraphernalia belonging to the false cut, and I will tako a plain plough and plain irons, and let us go and plough a week together ; let him cut and pack it to fche best of his skill, and I will work in my old-fashioned way ; let each of 113 sow our own work, and though I believe in plenty of harrowing, I am quite willing that an equal amount be given to each, and let the crop decide for itself. As a well-wisher of the agricultural interests of the district, I would like to see a good true system of ploughing and of tilling the ground established, and not a false system which only partly does its work. To work on that principle the land would require to undergo a process of subsoiling every second or third time that the ground was ploughed, so as to retain the natural Bap to nourish the crop in times of dry seasons. Hoping that these few remarks will find a place in your journal — I am, &c., Plain Ploughman.

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