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Show TIME AND LABOR CONSERVED Use Ordinary Breaking Plow in Beginning Be-ginning Ditch, Throwing Furrow-Slice Furrow-Slice to One Side. When beinning a ditch, a great deal of time and labor can often be saved by using an ordinary breaking plow and throwing out a furrow over the course the ditch is to follow. Of course, if the ditch makes many abrupt or short turns, relates Farm and Fireside, the difficulty will be somewhat increased. The course of the ditch should first be determined. Directly over this the plow should pass, throwing a furrow-slice furrow-slice to one side. WThen the end of the course is reached the plow should be turned and the course followed back to the starting point, this time throwing the furrow-slice to the opposite op-posite side. The plow should cut as deep as possible. This gives a wide, deep furrow, which in a very few minutes min-utes has accomplished the largest part of what would be represented by the first spading. If the ditch is to serve for surface drainage only, and thus be only one or two spadings deep, no great width is required at the top. Often a single furrow is sufficient. |