mould-board

If the slope is less than 3 per cent, this ploughing method is sufficient to prevent sheet erosion; flat ploughing is carried out using reversible ploughs and share and mould-board ploughs.

1.1. Forests 1982

In 1835 Sir Robert Peel presented a farmers 'club at Tamworth with "two iron ploughs of the best construction," and when he inquired after them and their work the following year, the report was that the wooden mould-board was better:

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

First, plow the peanuts with a point having a long, narrow wing, and a small mould-board, so that the vines will be loosened without having any earth thrown upon them.

The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones

= -- Usually, the cultivation of the Peanut begins by first siding the rows with a turn-plow, small mould-board attached, by which the soil is thrown from the plants, and lapped into a small ridge in the middle of the balk.

The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones

At the time of planting, the furrows should be cut with a plough fitted with a double mould-board, and the manure spread evenly along them previous to laying in the sets.

The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition Sutton and Sons

But should the crop get very grassy, (which should never be permitted), the turn-plow, with large mould-board attached, is used, in order to cover up as much of the grass as possible.

The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones

With us the first plowing is generally done with the turn-plow, with a small mould-board attached, throwing the earth into the balk.

The Peanut Plant Its Cultivation And Uses B. W. Jones

The cultivation is finished by running a small, double mould-board plough, rather shallow, between the rows.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

A subject of long rumination with him was as to how to contrive the mould-board of a plough that would offer the least resistance in breaking up the ground.

History of the University of Virginia, 1819-1919 1922

I have received the medal of gold by which the Society of Agriculture at Paris have been pleased to mark their approbation of a form of the mould-board which

The Jeffersonian Cyclopedia 1900