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ikllful ploughman, in ufing that inrjplement, muft: 

 run it over a certain fpace before he can lay fuffi- 

 cicnt hold of the foil to turn up a tolerable furrow, 

 and at the further end of the ridge he repeats the 

 fame defedt, and a certain fpace is blinked, in gra- 

 dually raifing the (hare out of the foil ; and thus, 

 both ends of the ridges are worfe ploughed than 

 the reft of the land, wiiich I call another great de- 

 fe(5t. But what is worft of all> is, that in wettifh 

 or doughy land, the wheels of the plough are fo 

 clogged with the tough foil, that it is impofTible to 

 make them move round, and thus the ploughing is 

 (lopped, however prefllng the feafon. 



Is it not then aftonifhing, that with all thefe ca- 

 pital defects, the wheel-plough fhould yet remain 

 the favourite implement in this and other counties, 

 where agriculture is fo well underftood; and that fo 

 light and fo efficient an implement as the fwing- 

 plough (hould be fo much negle6ted ! I will venture 

 to affert, that wherever there is a fair comparifon 

 made between the operation of the beft wheel-plough 

 and the fwing- plough invented by Mr. Cooke y that 

 the latter will be greatly preferred, 



I do not however mean to alledge that the fwing- 

 plough is altogether fauklefs; there is no imple- 

 ment I ever fav/, v/ithout fome defeft, and that of 



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