This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 Excerpt: ...the fields are more often now than formerly ploughed so as to have a crown or an open furrow from 50 to 100 feet apart. A good rule is to make only as many open furrows as are necessary to run the surface-water off. Ancient Form of Ridges.--More than half a century ago, ridges were made very broad--from 24 to 36 feet, and high on the crown--from an idea that an undulated surface affords a larger area for the crop to grow on, and that a crooked ridge like the letter S, from another mistaken notion, always presents some part of the crop in a right direction to the sun; which, although it did, removed other parts as far from it. Ridges were also made crooked to suit the lie of the land, so as to prevent the water in the furrows from gather Iing too great a force down-hill, and thus...

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