4 Implements of Hufbandry.— Ploughs,

in an implement that is fubjected to jolts and fhaking, is univerfally recognifed; yet, from the mott trifling confiderations, we fee this principle departed from, and loads of fuperfluous materials added, in vain, to fupply the defects that are thus pro- duced.” He concludes by obferving, that“ it is not to one implement only that_ thefe obfervations apply, but to almoft every common implement of agriculture*.””

The above principles, though extremely plain and obvious in themfelves, are circum- {tances which feem indeedto have been greatly overlooked by the practical farmer, and too little regarded by thofe who have been principally employed in making inftru- ments of this nature; as in almoft every diftri& of the kingdom, notwithftand- ing the many ufeful inventions and improvements which have lately been made, we may{till meet with different forts of implements that are not only exceedingly awkward and inconvenient from their clumfinefs, but which are ufed with much dif advantage, on account of their great weight: fituation, and fome other caufes, will, however, render a difference in regard to ftrength, and other circumftances, necef- fary, and by them the operator muft frequently be guided in the conf{trudtion of tools for the purpofes of hufbandry. As moft of the implements of this kind are made ufe of by perfons who have but little knowledge of the nature, power, or ac- tion of machines, and as they fhould be generally in the hands of farmers, they ought always to be conftruéted upon the moft plain and fimple principles, of fuch kinds of materials, and in fuch ways, as that they may-be afforded at a cheap rate, nothing having operated more unfavourably to the introduction of new implements among this clafs of men, than the great expence that attends the procuring of them.

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As ploughing, like many other operations in practical hufbandry, muft often vary in the manner of its being performed, it is: evident that no one particular fort of plough can be fuperior to all others, in every feafon, and under every variety of foil, or inclination of furface; different foils, fituations, and ufes, will of courfe require different kinds of ploughs, though there are, undoubtedly, fome that are capable of a much more general application than others. It-has, in- deed, been obferved by the author of a late work on hufbandry, that“ the plough which colts the leaft money, is the lighteft to trail, and makes the beft work, 1s of moft value;”” which, in general, we believe, may be truet.

In the forming or conftru€ting of all forts of implements of this kind, there are a few general principles that ought invariably to be attended to 3 fuch as the giving the throat and brea/i, or that part which enters, perforates,

* Anderfon’s Recreations in Agriculture,&c. t The Experienced Farmer.

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