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6. Lord Weymouth, with the common fingle Wilt- 

 fliire plough, to be drawn by three horfes,two abreaft,and 

 a fingle leader. 



For thefe candidates, fix parallel pieces of ground 

 were marked out, near one acre each, and all the 

 ploughs were to begin at the fame time, and to 

 plough their refpective lots at pleafure; but as nearly 

 as pofiible four inches deep, and eight inches wide. 

 — On a previous trial of the foil, the Norfolk 

 plough, from having only one handle, and the man 

 not bei; g ufed to plough ftiff ley land, was found 

 unequal to the conteft, and Mr. Vagg declined it. 

 Mr. George Flower alfo on account of inferior 

 workmanfhip, occafioned by the ill- conftruclion of 

 his plough, declined. Thus the conteft began with 

 only the other four. Before a judgment could be 

 formed of the probable ifiue, Lord Weymouth's 

 plough was broken againft a point of a rock juft 

 beneath the furface, and confequently thrown out : 

 — the trial then was confined to three. 



At the end of three hours and four minutes Mr. 

 Billingsley's plough had finifhed its lot. At the 

 end of five hours and five minutes Mr. Sully's had 

 finifhed: and Mr. Thomas's at the end of five 

 hours and a half. The latter ploughed about half 

 his lot with the four fmall oxen, and the remainder 

 with the addition of a fingle horfe, the foil being 



found too ftifF for the ftrength of the oxen. The 



committee of judges was compofed of five practical 

 farmers, three from Wilts, one out of Somerfet, and 

 one from the county of Glocefter. 



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