OF SOMERSETSHIRE- 399 dable lhe 6thly. Encourage the uſe of ſuch dloughs, and other inſtruments; then, as are beſt calculated to expedite Work and do it well. extra| , for| Admitting that there are only one hundred and fifty © of thouſand acres of tillage in the whole county, and that the allen| ſame are ploughed on an average twice; allowing alſo that | one-third of this is of ſo hilly a nature that a wheel-plough car cannot be uſed to advantage, there will remain one hundred SE| thouſand acres capable of being turned with the double fur- e| row plough. art,| For the ſake of argument, let it be alſo admitted that e: three horſes, a man, and a boy, with the common plough 4 of the country, will turn an acre a day, and that the double plough with four horſes, and the ſame number of attendants, epeal will turn two acres. The number of acres will of conſe- e quence be ploughed in half the time, and the difference in expence cannot exceed two ſhillings per day. Here then 4 might be a ſaving of twenty thouſand pounds per annum E in this article alone, beſides the ineſtimable advantage of LA expediting work at certain ſeaſons, iN Some may doubt the poſſibility of making the double A plough ſo generally uſeful; but Ï can truly ſay, Î have never H yet found an inſtance where it could not be worked to E advantage; and it is well known, that, in the various trials j made under the auſpices of the Bath Society, on lands of E the moſt difficult nature, the double plough has always gained uch y the prize. glen In the counties of Wilts and Dorſet, where three large and powerful horſes are put to a ſingle plough, the ſaving by ſuch an inſtrument would be immenſe; and this I can con- firm, by the teſtimony of ſome eminent farmers of the firſt- named ragt