2i6 Review of Pcehles Sur^cey* Maj 



their management, an obedience more devoted and implicit, than what 

 is generally paid even to an acknowledged Divine authority ?* 



The fedion on fheep farms contains n excellent account of 

 t^Q efficient Tweedale hufbandry, but cannot with propriety be 

 abridged. We muft therefore leave it to be taken up at a time 

 when we have more leifure upon our hands. 



Hufbandry implements, of every defcription, appear to be of 

 the fame improved kinds as are now generally uled in Scotland, 

 and this might have been expefted in a county where fo many 

 of the relident proprietors may be characterifcd as enlightened 

 and accomplifhed farmers. Srvi all's plough, with a curved mould 

 board, is mofl commonly ufed; and the Scotch plough, of a light 

 conilruv^ion, is preferred for lands abounding with ftones. 

 Cleaning ploughs, of various kinds, are in the hands of every 

 farmer who cultivates green crops. Mr Sanderfon, on his farm 

 near the village of Linton, has alfo invented a draining plough, 

 which, with fix horfes, clears out a drain of two feet by eighteen 

 inches. Sir Georcje Montgomery has alfo introduced a draining 

 plough, called the Miner^ inteRded to follow another plough of the 

 common kind, and to break up the pan or fubfoil, thereby furniih- 

 ing a channel or defcent for the water through a bottom formerly 

 retentive. Drilling machines fov turnips are of courie frequent. 

 One horfe coup carts are almoft univerfally in ufe, and fanners 

 for dreffing corn are to be found on every farm. The number of 

 thrailiing machines, in this fmall county, is allonilhingly great, 

 no fewer than 42 being wrought, whereof 18 are driven by wa- 

 ter. 'I'he placing of the beaters or fcutchers upon the drum in a 

 line croffing, at a fmall angle, that of the drum's axis, inftead of 

 being placed parallel to it. as mentioned in the addenda to the 

 Roxburgh report, we cannot confider as any improvement. In 

 the firft place, the force of the beat or fwitch would be propor- 

 tionably leflened, whilft the flraw would neceflarily be drawn to 

 one end of the drum, and the motion of the machine of courie be 

 impeded. 



We coincide with our author in thinking that the coft of 

 completely enclofmg fuch a county as Peebles, would much more 

 than exceed the probable advantages. A pafture enclofure to 

 ferve as an hofpital, or to confine rams, would, however, be ad- 

 vantageous on every Iheep farm. In feveral counties we have 

 noticed ufelefs outlays of money in this mode of improvement ; 

 but the expence is now fo great, that the evil ilands a fair chance 

 of correfling itfclf. 



Some excellent obfervations are to be found in the two fedlons 

 upon farm-houfes and cottages, and the author defcribes the 

 former and prefent llate of fociety with philofophic precifion. 

 lie ^Ays, p. 36. 



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