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^hcrc. I had often feen a horfe-rake, made for 

 gathering the gramen camne, or couch-grafs, toge- 

 ther upon fallow lands, and knew a farnner who had 

 ufed it for his own mown wheat ftubblesi but this 

 rake being drawn from the end of the beam by 

 the horfe, dragging the ends of the teeth upon the 

 ground, co]le6ted fuch quantities of weeds, grafs, 

 earth, and ftones with it, as nearly to render the 

 corn of no value ; befides, it could not be ufed for 

 clofe-mown ftubbles at all. 



Having for many years ufed the Norfolk ploughs 

 here, I thought a rake might be fo qonftrudted as 

 to go on the breaft-work of one of thefe ploughs in 

 the fame manner as the plough itfclf is ufed. 



I therefore had one made nine feet and a half 

 long, and the teeth fix inches afunder. Upon ap- 

 plying it in the place of the plough on the bread- 

 work, I found it anfwered extremely well, except 

 that when it rtiet with any confiderable obftruc- 

 tion at one end, it drew the other end aflant. To 

 remedy this inconvenience, I took away the pillar 

 (the part of the bread- work that the beam reds 

 upon, and which is raifed higher, or let down 

 lower, to (ink or raife the plough) and had another 

 made to extend about a foot or rather more be- 

 yond 



