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Some years ago I had a plough made of the 

 fame kind with the model and drawing which I 

 have the honour of prefenting to your Society. 

 It was made by a common ploughwright, and 

 fufficiently ftrong for any land made fit for turnips 

 or wheat. I have now ufed it for eight years, 

 without its requiring any repair. It has been 

 tried on very rough ground unfit for fowing, in. 

 order to afcertain its ftrength. 



Laft year having read Mr. Forbes, upon the ex- 

 tenlive practice of the New Hufbandry, and fome 

 other authors, who gave a more clear and diftinct 

 account of the different operations in drilling than 

 had heretofore been given, I wifhed to try them, 

 and to adapt my plough to fow the quantities 

 therein directed. It was, however, adjufted to fow 

 a /mailer quantity, and the feed wa$ not fteeped. 



Not having ground fo proper as I wifhed, it 

 was drilled on the fide of a field, the foil of which 

 was light and fandy, and in fuch bad order, that; 

 the preceding crop was a very indifferent one. It 

 was therefore manured with a compoft dung-hill. 



After crofs-ploughing and manuring, it was 

 laid into four and a half feet ridges, then har- 

 rowed and drilled with one peck and a half of 



wheat 



