44 Of the Coulter.

enables us to raiſe or lower the coulter at picaſure. This ftay alſo produces another good effet, by preventing the ſtubble from being preſſed up into the angle formed by the coulter and beam, from which it is very troubleſome to diſlodge it. I may here obſerve, that it is not a good pradice for the plough- man to puſh the ſtubble which gathers on the plough to the furrow ſide. It ſhould be puſhed to the land fide, ſo that it would fall into the track of the

plough, and be buried; whereas, by

puſhing it to the furrow ſide, ic is apt

to lye above. It is alſo eaſier for the ploughman, with his right hand, to puſh it to the land ſide.

On the whole, this poſition of the coulter, a little to the left of! the Tand

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