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ploughs have been tried on the Cotfwold hills; 
but the perfons who tried them never entertained 
an idea, that the horfes could go in them for eight 
or nine hours without baiting, as is practifed here ; 
and the introduction of the Norfolk cuftom of bait- 
ing at noon and working later in the evening, 
though by no means a bad one, yet being new to 
the country, was attended with fo many difficul- 
ties as to difcourage the ufe of them. 
The double mould-board Plough is very clever, and 
feems well calculated for the purpofes it is defigned 
for. Mr. Tugwell ufes it to make the water-fur- 
rows on his land. His manner of doing this on 
fidelong grounds, is well deferving attention. In. 
ftead of furrowing down the flopes in the ufual 
way, he draws his furrows acrofs, but inclining fuffi- 
ciently with the declivity for the water to draw off, 
by which means every part of the ground is tho- 
roughly and equally drained; and the bottoms of 
fome of his grounds, which, in the common me- 
thod, were poifoned with wet from the upper part, 
being now laid quite dry, are become the moft pro- 
ductive parts of the fields. 
This gentleman is likewife conftructing a roller, 
which promifes to be a very ufeful implement. 
I faw two rollers in this neighbourhood, on a 
conftruction new to me; one of them was procured 
from the neighbourhood of Marlborough—a com- 
mon, roller of about} fourteen inches diameter, 
furrounded 
