re) Implements of I ufoandry.—W heel- Ploughs.

The rotheram-plough, with a wheel as above, might probably, in many cafes, be made ufe of with equal, if not greater advantage, from its being very light and requiring little ftrength in the team.

The improved common wheel-plough, and likewife the two-wheel-plough, are implements which will be found ufeful in certain kinds of foil where the more complex ones cannot be employed, as in breaking up frefh grounds,&c.‘The former has been lately much improved by the addition of an iron earth-board firmly {crewed to the coulter, which in fome places 1s called a flay. It is made ufe of when ploughing turf, by which it‘s taken off and turned into the furrow, when the plough immediately covers++ with earth. It is obferved that, by this manage- ment, turf, at one ploughing, has the appearance of a fallow, and harrows nearly as well. A little more ftrength in the team is however required*.

The latter has generally a check-chain, by which the wheel is pulled up, sn order to be out of the way in opening ridges and clearing up furrows.. There is alfo in fome of the fen diftricts a kind of wheel-plough, which has much refemblance to the Dutch paring-plough employed in Cambridgefhire, which is a good inftrument for ploughing where there is much ftubble, or where the want of proper management in the farmer has fuffered twitch-grafs to become abundant. The mould-board in this plough has a good fweep, and the fhare a proper form, which fhould be conftantly kept fharp by means of files, and be well fteeled. The coulter in this fort of plough is a fteel wheel, which is well adapted for the purpofes ire of Lincolnfhire,

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we have juft mentioned. Mr. Young, in his account of the agricultv remarks, that Mr. Cartwright affixes to this plough a bean-drill of great fimplicity,

that drills upon the centre of the preceding furrow, while the next is turning;

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with which apparatus it muft be a very convenient and ufeful impleme:

variety of purpofes in arable hufbandry.

A/ thle e trips Pea AR IAS re: te Fee p The double or two-furrow plough isan implement that has not yet, perhaps, been i

y fully tried in different kinds of foil; but which certainly, when well made, may, in many forts of land, be advantageoutly employed. It produces two furrows at once, and in fome of the lighter forts of foil, has been found to perform its work in a tolerably neat manner. It requires, however, great. powcr in the draught, efpecially in ftrong foils when dry and ftony, and does not even in fome cafes anfwer well. But for ploughing level fandy lands into wide ridges it may, in general, be a good tool, though it is obvioufly more confined in its work than a fingle plough. The chief and moft important advantages attending its ufe are, in the faving of the attendance of one perfon, and in doing nearly double the work in the fame length of time, with

* Pitt's View of the Agriculture of Staftordfhire,