I &04. Rcwarl'S en Mr Ducket's ^hm Plough y i^c. 473 



Concluficti. — It is to the drilled turnip hufliandry, added to the 

 mixt huibandry (or that of hviving half of the farms in tilIa;Te and 

 half in pafture j^rafs, with power to fhift), that Berwipkihire iti 

 indebted for the high rank it holds of being one of the firU and 

 belt cultivated counties (under fniiilar circumilances) in the kinp;- 

 dom, and for the-extenfive demand for its breed of black cattle 

 -and fheep ; which has filled the pockets of many of the farmers 

 with well-earned wealth, and, in many cafes, has tripled, qua- 

 drupled, and quiiitupled the landlord's rent. It is perhaps necef- 

 fary to .^.dd, that much of the land bein^ allowed to lye for years 

 in paiture grafs, it acquires a Ififlnefs on the furface, from th..^ 

 grafs roots, that cannot be reduced by the breaking-up crop, which 

 is generally oats fown after one ploughing : therefore the drill 

 turnip huibandry becomes more neceflary here than in other coun- 

 ties, where almoll the whole lands are conftantly kept under crop, 

 and where no grafs of value is to be found above one year old. 



Wood- End f by Dunft:^ Decernber 1797. Alex. Low. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER S MAGAZINE. 



DireBions ivhere Graduated Spring Steelyards may be procured \ with 

 Remarks on Mr Duckef^s Skim-Plowjh. 



o 



Sir, 



The TcrlJIjire Farmery page 523, vol. IV. of your Magazin(E 

 may obtain the Graduated Spring Steelyards that he inquires after, 

 by applying to Mr Salmon, Woburn Park, Bedfordlhire, where 

 alfo are made the machines for weighing live flock, on the fame 

 ,principles as thofe ufed annually at Woburn fheep-fhearing to de- 

 termine the prizes. 



The price of the fpring fteelyard is five guineas ; of the cattle 

 weighing machine I cannot fay, but think about the fame price. 

 With this graduated fpring fteelyard, the force required to work 

 every feparate part of the Duke of Bedford's large thrafliing ma- 

 chine has been meafured, which has difcovered fome very im- 

 portant fafts in mechanics. 



In A. Young's Annals of Agriculture^ No. 248, page 540, 

 the writer who figns Montagu Burgoyney in defcribing the plough- 

 ang match at Harlow, July i. 1804, ftates as follovis : 



* It appeared to me to be as necelTary to afcertain the fuperio- 

 rity of the plough as of the ploughman. A filver medal was for 

 this reafon given to the manufa<Sl:urer or owner of the belt plouglj, 

 which did its bufmefs the beft with the leajl force. A good deal 

 «f difficulty occurred in this decifion, for every metliod liitherto 



H h 4 t'hou^h^ 



