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# LANCASHIRE.

CHAPTER VV:

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USEFUL INSTRUMENTS IN HUSBANDRY.

iE a ds thirty years ago, the Rotheram or Yorkſhire

plough. was introduced into the ſouthern part of this county*,‘The plough formerly in uſe was almoſt a load of itſelf for a draught horſe. In the north of Lancafhire a plough, called the Cumberland plough, invented in that county, is generally uſed. A trench plough has been lately introduced- by Mr. Ducket, ſon of the celebrated Ducket of Eſher, in Surrey.

This plough has a ſkim coulter, by which the ſurface{if foul) may be turned under, and freſh ſoil brought up; as it is capable of bringing up the land from ſix to ten inches, and is uſually drawn by three horſes. Another inſtrument has becn lately introduced, which Mr. Eccleſton, with propriety, calls the miner; which-is a plough-ſhare fixed in a ſtrong beam, without mold-boards, and drawn by four or more horſes, and follows in the furrow the plough has juſt made, and, without turning up the ſubſtratum, penetrates into, and looſens the ſoil, from 8 to 12 inches deeper than the plough had before gone; Which operation, beſides draining the land, cauſes the water to carry along with it any vitriolic or other noxious mat-

* By the late J. Athertgn, Eſq. Walton Hall.

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