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done or delaying any horfe-hoeing, to wait for the 

 ufe of cither. But furcly, if thofe on the latter con- 

 ftrudion do their work in every refpedb as well as 

 thofe on the firft invention, a preference will be 

 given to them, when new ones are wanted ; and the 

 Royal and humane idea be encouraged and recorded 

 by future pradtice, to the honour of the Sovereign, 

 and fafety of the fubjedt. 



It is fcarcely to be imagined how completely Mr, 

 Duckitt makes his wheat-mows. They are finely 

 fwollen out to that enormous bulk in the middle, 

 tapered up in fo beautiful a manner to the top, and 

 fo handfomely covered with thatch, that they arc 

 perfeft pidures. And the largeft of thofe I faw 

 muft have contained many hundred bulhels of corn, 



I had the fatisfadtion to find Mr, Duckitt fowing 

 a field of eleven acres with turnips. It is amazing 

 with what expedition he proceeds j his field was 

 perfedlly ploughed and harrowed ; and he carried 

 on his work, according to his ufual method when 

 he works with two drill-ploughs, by beginning in 

 the middle of his field. One drill-plough branched 

 off one way towards one fide-hedge, the other 

 worked oppofitc to it^ and tended towards the op- 

 ppfit^ fcedge, Jh^ drills iboq worked on faft 



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