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occafionally at the ends, to raife the teeth from the 

 ground as it is drawn along the road. 



I am fenfible, that if a low wheel were fixed at 

 each end, even when in its work, ic would greatly 

 leflen the fri<5lion, and the horfe would draw it the 

 eafier ; but it would render it more complex, and, 

 perhaps, occafion it not to turn fo eafily at the 

 ends of the land. I have, however, had it in idea, 

 to fix fome kind of ftandard on the head of the 

 rake for a line, like the Norfolk plough-lines, to 

 come back to, that the man might guide the 

 Jiorfc himfelfi and fave the expence of a boy to 

 lead him} but to this there feem to arife fomc 

 objedlions. 



One horfe, and a boy to lead him, with, a man 

 to clear the rake, will eafily rake twelve acres of 

 ftubble in a day; and if two horfes are taken into 

 the field, to be ufed alternately, twenty acres might 

 be raked in the fame time; but this would be hard 

 work for the man. 



The manner of ufing it is as follows :— 



The rake being put on the bread- work of the 

 Norfolk plough, in the fame manner as the ploughs 

 9re^ the horfe draws it with the fame traces, &c. 



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