Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 665
of wider and tleeper fur-rows, which is also encouraged by the level character of the land. Because of these con-ditions steam-plowing is exciting increased interest. Steam-plows.—The system of drawing gangs of plows with a suitable traction steam-engine is favored in the United States and known as… … Fig. 9.—The Price plowing outfit. preference in the United States may be ascribed mainly to the greater length of furrow andmore level character of the land in the regions of large farming operations, where steam-plowing is in course of introduction on the prairies of the great Mississippi basin,…
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