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And fuch was the evident comparative fuperiority 

 of Mt.Billingsley's double coulter- plough, drawn 

 by fix oxen, that feveral gentlemen and farmers 

 from different parts have in confequence determined 

 to work oxen inftead of horfes; and have given 

 orders for the making of double ploughs to the 

 amount of fix or feven in number. One gentle- 

 man, who was an umpire on the occafion, and who 

 occupies feveral large farms, having been accuf- 

 tomed to keep on one of them fix horfes and two 

 ploughs, being convinced that a double-coultered 

 plough and fix oxen would completely do the work 

 of the farm, determined to make fuch a regulation 

 immediately. Thus the Society may have the fa- 

 tisfaclion of hoping, that from a continuation of 

 fimilar public trials, improvements will be made in 

 the leflening of expence in hufbandry,- from which, 

 among numerous other caufes, the propofed good 

 cbnfequences of their zealous endeavours will refult. 



To the foregoing Statement of Faffs relative to this 

 Trial of Ploughs , we fubjoin the following Extra cl 

 of a Letter written by a fraclical Farmer 9 who was 

 frefent on the occafion. 



Let us here paufe, and take a comparative 



view of the expence of ploughing an acre of land 

 drawn from the preceding trials. 



The average price of keeping oxen, (including 

 winter and fummer food) I take to be 3s. per week; 



the 



