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ter; by the ſubſtratum thus looſened, the roots of plants may penetrate the deeper; and, in courſe of time, that which is but a barren ſubſtance may become fertile ſoil.

There is a greater variety of carts in this county than in the

ſame given ſpace in any other part of the kingdom. In the

neighbourhood of Liverpool they are of very large ſize; thoſe Ce in the coal-trade within the towú are gauged to 36 buſhels Wincheſter.

The country dung carts, in the ſame neighbourhood, are alſo of 2 very large ſize, and generally will hold thirty-ſix Win- cheſter buſhels,— carry two tons of dung; they have fſix- inch wheels, In the interior parts of the county, the carts greatly diminiſh in ſize, and have variety of forms; in the northern part the ſize is very ſmall; the clog wheel,‘as it is tèrmed(three planks of aſh), which was E much in uſe in the north, on account of cheapneſs, has yielded to the ſpoke wheel; the clog being more clumſy, and the cart more liable to overſet—in theſe carts the wheel did not move upon the axis, but both turned round together.

Single carts are in more géneral uſe*. Mr. Jenkinſon of Yealand ſays,“ that a gentleman, in his neighbourhood, made a fair trial 1 in the hay field“ between the large and ſmall carts, or what 1s often called double and îmgle carts, in which the latter Ra much the advantage, in N of buſineſs; and the conſeguence was, that the double carts were little uſed af- terwards.” Mr. H. Harper obſerves, that for a ſinall diſtance, 20 RAI A ſtatute mile, the ingle cart has certainly an ad- vantage; but at a further diſtance, he prefers the double cart íor diſpatch of buſineßs; becauſe the E ſtrength or number of hands 1s requiſite to unload the ſinall, as the large

Although Lancaſhire is not a corn county, yet, labour being: dear, there are ſeveral thraſhing machines s already introduced 5

one of which belongs to CoA Mordaunt of Halfll, which

The encouragement of th-ſe can alone preſerve the roads of Great Br ain.——Sce Annals of Agriculture, Vol. XYIII, Pi 178,&C.

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