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Swing mold-board plow.

A plow whose mold-board may be shifted to throw the soil to the right or to the left as may be required.

There are several modes of accomplishing this: —

1. By making the plow double, and lowering one or the other to work.

2. By turning the iron portion on an axis, so as to make the sole the landside, and vice versa, the mold-board officiating for each in either relation, in one case turning the soil to the right, and in the other to the left.

3. Plows having no special mold-board, and in which the colter merely is shifted so as to loosen the furrow slice on that side to induce it to tip over on the other as the share lifts it.

The object is to enable the team to return in and alongside the furrow last made, — an object which is especially desirable in plowing steep hillsides where the furrow can only be thrown down hill. See hillside-plow; turn-wrest plow.

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