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Sect. II. Of the Invention of new Implements of 

 HuJJjandryy or Improvements in the old. 



This article comprehends ploughs of every de- 

 nomination, drags, harrows, horfe and hand hoes, 

 machines and implements which have been in- 

 vented to perform the fcveral operations of huf- 

 bandry in a more perfedl manner, and with lefs 

 trouble and expcnce. 



In former times ploughs were very ill-confl:ru6ledj 

 fome little more than fcratched the ground, others 

 were made fo heavy and clumfy as to require great 

 ftrength to work them. Lefs than four horfes could 

 do nothing with them. There are now feveral in 

 ufe which perform much better, viz. the Rotheram 

 or patent plough y the one-wheeled plough , and the Nor- 

 folk plough, which I believe is the laft, and, it is faid, 

 by much the beft in ufe 5 as it will plough up ftrong 

 land with two horfes only, a man, and no driver ; 

 fo that it does as much work and quite as well as 

 the ftrong heavy two-wheeled plough, which requires 

 four horfes, a man, and driver j being double the 

 expence of the Norfolk-plough for the fame quan- 

 tity of work. A very great improvement indeed ! 



But there is another plough in ufe, which it is faid 

 does twice the work of this in the fame time, at a 



little 



