Posted by Dick2 on January 19, 2015 at 22:21:08 from (75.172.225.172):
In Reply to: Plowing posted by Ted in NE-OH on January 19, 2015 at 17:20:58:
I think most of the horse drawn plows were 2-bottoms of 12" shares for a total of 24" cut.
The standard at the time was to drive the horse 20 miles in a day; that was that limit for most horses. If you know tha length of the field, you can calculate the acres.
Knew a fellow that worked on a large Bonanza farm in ND. The hired men would leave the headquarters with a team and 2-bottom plow and plow 5 miles south and then 5 miles back north. They made 1 round in the morning and 1 round in the afternoon and had their 20 miles in for the day. It took a lot of horses, small equipment and hired men to farm those big farms at that time.
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