THE

AGRICULTURAL MAGAZINE.

Not DUX) JULY; 1805.[VorL. XU

BESCRIPTION OF A MOULD BOARD, E BVARD, OR EAR OF A PLOUGH, WHICH OFFERS T

RESISTANCE IN WORKING, AND OF TION IS EQUALLY EASY AND CERTAIN,.

By THOMAS Jt

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[wiTH A PLATE ANNEXED.] The following account of an invention by the preient enlightened Preſident of America, would have been before preſented to the-Britiſfh public, by the proprietor of the Aaricultural Magazine,(who 1s no leſs anxious to gratify his readers with every new objett of their intereſt, than to do honour to dignified ſcience inevery part ot the wor ld) 3; butthat being favoured by 2 relpetabie correſpondent, to whom he owes incalculable obligations, with the knowledge of an improvement by the National Inſtitute of France, he was defirous to wait for the copy from the French preſs with that addi- tion, of which the preſent article is a verbal tranſlation. It is indeed pleaſ- ing(as the French Profeſſor obſerves)“* to ſee the firſt Magiſtrate of a free people, employing the ſhort moments left to him by the adminiſtration of a valt empire, in the improvement of the plough. His philanthrophic views in imparting to the agriculture of the new and ancient continents, the reſult of his uſeful labours is not lels intereſting. It is to complete Cadds the French writer) his liberal intentions, that his memoir is printed here, and that the model of his car for a plough, is depoſited in the gallery of agricultural utenſils, t0 aſlilt in the courſe given every year in the Mu- ſeum at Paris. We feel proud in an opportunity of extending this com pliment to Britain, and hope for may repetitions of ſo delightful an inter- courſe, on a ſubjett the bclt calculated to unite, as it intecelts, the whole civilized world.

HE earth board of a plough Should not be merely the

continuation of the Sock or Share, beginning at its hind

Part, bar it requires also to be conducted on tbe 5ame line or direction.

Its principal function is to receive horizontally from tbe

Share the clod of earth, to raise it to a proper height for re-

Serving or turning it over, opposIng In its Graugnt the least

»osSSible resistance, and in consequence, only requiring as ,|»,|;

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little moving power as iy Confined to these bounds, t! eor the fe Jess be the form most con for pra( 91 being also to turn over the clod of eanh, of tbe earth board Should be without any 3

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