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?Scotch plow?

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Kickin Bull

01-19-2005 21:02:10




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I just finished reading Malabar Farm by Louis Bromfield. It was interesting. He refered to a Scotch plow they used for tilling the soil. I have never heard of one. Can anyone tell me what they are? maybe a link to a picture? TIA




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tim[in]

01-20-2005 15:42:44




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 Re: ?Scotch plow? in reply to Kickin Bull, 01-19-2005 21:02:10  
like he said i is a type of bottom, but i think in one version of malabar farm ther was a pic or drawing of the scotch plow too. i think they use something similar in the canadian plowing contests or it at least makes the furrows look the same. also not all "corn belt" plows completely turned the soil over. my allis and i think maybe some deeres may have also laid the soil onto its side . turning it just a quarter turn.around here the thing was a good job of plowing covered up all the residue so it didnt catch if you used a field cultivator or even a disc and plug it up. and also not plug up the drill,planter or cultivators when the crop was growing.i think as long as you still turn a lot of organic matter into the soil you will stop a lot of erosion to since the organic matter keeps the soil in better tilth and helps the rain soak in instead oif running off and helps bind the soil so the wind erosion doesnt blow it away.what i would like to try is louis bromfields hay dryer. i'm surprised it never caught on. i saw the one at malabar farm on one of my two trips there in the 80s.have you read his other books? "From my experience" is newer abd better in my opinion than malabar farm. but my ninty acres in pleasant valley is my favorite story.! =)

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Kickin Bull

01-20-2005 21:09:03




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 Re: ?Scotch plow? in reply to tim[in], 01-20-2005 15:42:44  
Thanks. So far Malabar Farm is the only one I have read. Pleasant Valley has been ordered and I am looking forward to reading it next. The hay dryer was never mentioned in MF.In the 50's Michigan State had a dairy set up with quonset barns. They chopped all the hay and straw. They put a dryer in the hay storage. I never saw it working, too young. But I had an old extension pamplet that showed pics and described it.

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tim[in]

01-21-2005 17:16:12




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 Re: ?Scotch plow? in reply to Kickin Bull, 01-20-2005 21:09:03  
dont forget "Out of The Earth" too. except for the story "my 90 acres" ,"From My Experience" i think is the best . it also was the last and it is the one that talked about the hay dryer. also his roadside market to end all markets. the stand is still there and you can get a drink of the water that flows thru it.it has a sandstone trough and a spring is piped so it flows thru the sandstone trough and out across the road into the watercress bed then into one of the ponds he wrote about .he cooled baskets of fresh produce in the trough.

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Tom from Ontario

01-20-2005 07:38:08




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 Re: ?Scotch plow? in reply to Kickin Bull, 01-19-2005 21:02:10  
KB: A scotch bottom plough is anything with a narrow cut share usually called a sod bottom around here. They were meant to plough sod and pasture with an absolute minimum of top growth. Max furrow width was twelve inches and went as low as six. The old Ferguson ploughs were sometimes sold with the Ferg tractors at 2x12 or 3x8. IH, Massey and Cockshutt ploughs in the 40's and 50's were mostly like this. They did a real nice job with minimum ground cover, but if you were ploughing down a cover crop or corn stalks, they would plug in an instant. Hence the adoption of the corn belt style of plough with 16, 18 or20 inch bottoms and lots of clearance. The corn belts have been faulted for completely inverting the furrow slice and entombing all residue to the point where the residue is ploughed back up again a year later. The narrow bottom ploughs only turned the furrow slice about 120 to 135 degrees. The old pioneers used to be meticulous with their fall ploughing because they would go out in the spring onto the fall ploughing, broadcast their seed and then harrow crossways to cover the seed and that was it for tillage. Minimum tillage from 1825.

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