The new plow is found excellent for after-cultivation, and in connection with the old one makes his stock of plows fully adequate to every variety of American soil.
It is worthy of notice, as a proof of the enterprise of this firm, that each year since it was first introduced they have been obliged to double the number of plows made the preceding year.
The plows of the period were cumbersome and did their work poorly.
The plows appeared excessively heavy to the Virginians who looked them over, but a trial showed that they worked "exceedingly well.
A square of golden straw remained standing, to be either burned at the end of harvest, or turned under by the plows to further enrich the soil.
But during all the while the plows were kept busily turning the fertile valley sod, which was planted in corn and millet, thus providing feed for the stock the ensuing winter.
The mission will bring you plows and hoes to learn you how to cultivate the land, and they will not sell, but give them to you.
Ordinary stirring plows sold at from ten to fifteen dollars.
As to the small proprietor, the villager who plows his land himself, his condition is but little better.
Their camp gradually becomes a village and next a small town; man plows as soon as he can be sure of his crops, and becomes the father of a family as soon as he considers himself able to provide for his offspring.
The implements are poor; there are no plows made of iron; in many places the plow of Virgil's time is still in use.
Beal, who has studied crows a long time, speaks of them as valuable farm hands; and Neltje Blanchan says that they are as much entitled to a share of the corn as the horse that plows it.
Of some it can be said: "Who reads and reads and does not what he knows, Is one that plows and plows and never sows.
It did not enter into these accounts that the plows and hoes of a sacked country had been deserted for the A B C book.
Cows were occasionally put to the plow, and it may not have been unknown to them that the cowplows quicker than the ox.
Instead of great steam-plows and all sorts of machinery for harrowing and harvesting, small plows were pulled by oxen, and hoes and rakes were plied by hand.
They's no breaking up and enriching land that ain't never bore nothing but buffalo-grass, without I have picks and spades and plows and harrers.
Actually, it appears that only the cutting edge, the share, on the first Deere plows was steel.
Steel presented a smoother surface which shed the sticky loam better than the conventional wooden moldboards covered with wrought iron, or the cast iron moldboards of the newer factory-made plows then coming into use.
During the first few years, when production was very small, there were probably enough worn out mill saws available for the relatively few plows made.
The success of his plows in the prairie soils depended on a steel share which held a sharp edge and a highly polished moldboard to which the sticky soils could not cling.
It seems, therefore, that Deere's success in making plows that worked well in prairie bottom lands depended as much on the smooth surface he produced by grinding and polishing as on the material used.
The importance attached to the steel share led to the plows being identified as steel plows.
These implements were called, simply, plows of various regional types.
Symmetrical handles branching from both sides of the beam are found on cultivators, shovel plows, middle busters, and sidehill plows where the moldboard is turned alternately to each side.
On a Maine plate,-- Who learns and learns but does not what he learns, Is one who plows and plows but never sows.
The following motto, Who learns and learns but does not what he knows, Is one who plows and plows but never sows, is also given in fac-simile of handwriting.
The wagons stood in the sun and rain, and the plowsrusted in the fields.
And now think of the reapers and mowers, the binders and threshing machines, the plows and cultivators, upon which the farmer rides protected from the sun.
In 1831, we had thrashing machines and double plows, and even multiple plows had been proposed, tried, and abandoned.
The blacksmiths were set to work making sickles for cutting grass and reaping grain; shovels, plows and other implements for farmers.
My pa wuz the blacksmith on the plantashun, and he mek all de plows and tings like dat.
A few hoes and mattocks, scythes, reaping hooks, spades and wooden plows with iron points and shares complete the list.
The fragile wooden plows of the seventeenth century were of no use among the stumps and roots in newly cleared forest lands.
Plows were made in his blacksmith shop from 10 inch sheet iron.
My daddy was de blacksmith for Mr. Jackie Davis en he could make plows en hoes en all dem kind of things.
I know some plows are so made that the nigh horse walks in the furrow, but I have mighty little respect for such plows or the farms on which they are used.
I can feel it in frosty weather yet; but it never amounted to much except to the dealers in ridingplows and the like.
Then deep we plows along the sea, The Yankee scarcely scratches; And cracks on every stitch of sail Upon our staggering yatches.
He constantly employed two hundred and fifty hands, and kept twenty-four plows going during the whole year, when the earth and the state of the weather would permit.
In de days I's a boy even de plows was made on de place.
De blacksmith do de iron work and de wood work am done by pappy, and de plows am mostly wood.
I must be purty big when us come to Texas, 'cause I plows and is stockman back in Missouri.
Den dey gits to plowin' deep, and it am colder 'cause de trees all cut, and dey plows up all de spiders and de cold kill dem.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plows" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
