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Show EVENER FOR PIVE HOR8E8. Effective Manner In Which Horses Are Used on Gang Plow. Herewith I submit a description of how I ubo flvo horseB on a gang plow, with two of-them as load team, writes a farmor in Brooders' Gazotto. Mako an evenor of ash or oak two by flvo Inches and 20 Inches long from clovls to clovls, giving tho lend team the 12-lnch end and tho eight-Inch end tor wheelers. wheel-ers. Fasten nn old neck-yoko ring or something similar to tho end of tho tonguo and run a log chnln through 1 V I ' cU'j TJa s CVCNCft Hitching Five Horses to a Gang Plow. this to A on tho evenor, using light whlfllo treea for the lend team. It Is doslrable to uso a three-horse ovonor for tho wheelers; havo a holo for tho clovls In tho contor of tho ovener and tho center liorso will pull against tho outsldo ones. Such an ovener may bo bought at nny Implement Imple-ment house Tho clevis connecting this threo-horse ovonor with tho 20-Inch ovener at C should ho n solid pleco doublo clovls which will hold tho thrco-horso ovener In 'plnco and not lnterforo with tho chain. If horses weigh less than' 1,400 pounds each It will pay to uso flvo horses on a gang plow. With thorn I enn plow six acres n day easily, whereas with four It 1b hard work to lay ovor tour acres. It Is tho last straw that breaks tho camel's back and I am In favor of unloading soveral straws. Anothor method of using flvo horses with two In tho lead Is as follows: Mako an evener flvo foot long, giving tho outsldo wheolcr four feet nnd ono foot for tho two teams that work against each othor with chain and pulley. |