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Of ile Coulter. ZF much to the land. But this is a deceit, and the quantity of real work is not in- creaſed by this poſition of the coulter. For, by the point of the coulter‘being ſo: much:to the land: ſide! of the ſock, a good part of the flice cut by the coul- ter is not raiſed by the ſock, but broken on the corner of the ſock and ſheath, and,- falling in between the coulter and ſock, obftructs the motion of the plough, and even throws it out of the ground. This obſtruction is moſt diſtin@ly perceived in the plough with a feathered ſock. The furrow ftrikes on the land ſide of the ſock, at its firſt riſe, when it would, at any rate,’ preſs moſt upon what is below it. Alſo, by this preſſing on the land ſide, both of the ſpear and feather ſock, it tends to

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