Millard County Chronicle | 1913-02-20 | Page 5 | Time and Labor Conserved

TIME AND LABOR CONSERVED Use Ordinary Breaking Plow In Beginning Be-ginning Ditch, Throwing Furrow-Slice Furrow-Slice to One Sds. Whea beginning 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 snd Flreld. the dilllculty will be some hat Increased. The course of the ditch should first be determined. Directly over this the plow should pass, throwing a furrow- lice to one side. When the end of Hie cournn is reached the plow should be tumid and the course followed bx'lu. to the starting point this time throwing the furrowsllee to the op-poMie op-poMie side. The plow should cut rl ep s possible. This gives a wide, deip furrow, which In a very few minutes min-utes has accomplished the lurRent part tf what would be represented by the t.-l spading. If the ditch Is to serve kir surfitce drslnaite only, and thus bn ''' no or to .r.dlriRs deep, no creat width is required at the top. Lfften a single furrow Is sufficient. I