ÍA Of the Coulter

the ſock is of ſuch a length as to maké the coulter more inclined than C D, the coulter will always help to keep tlie plough in the ground.

The next thing to be conſidered in the poſition of the ¿itch reſpects its fitneßs for clearing, or freeing, the part of flie, plough which follows it in the fuürrow.|

The defeQs of the common form of the land ſide of the plough, and of the poſition of the coulter correſponding to it, are very ſenſible, both when we uſe the long praiſed ſpear ſock, and plain mouldboard; and alſo when we uſe the more modern feathered ſock, and curved mouldboard. Theſe defedts have bed diſtin@ly ſcen by the aQual compariſon with a plough of a. more

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