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calculated not only to expedite the work, but to 

 render it lefs expenfivc; and their endeavours have 

 been attended with no inconfiderable degree of 

 fuccefs: yen I may fafely fay, that not one farmer 

 in five hundred has followed the example, though 

 many of them daily receive ocular demonftration 

 of the inferiority of their own ill-conftru6ted 

 ploughs. To what can this blindnefs and obfti- 

 nacy be owing? The farmers are quick-fighted 

 enough in moft other matters wherein their intereft 

 is Concerned. I am therefore inclined to think, 

 the fault lies more with the ploughman than with 

 the mafter, whofe indolence induces him rather to 

 accommodate the plough to the many than to exert 

 himfelf in making the man accommodate himfelf 

 to the plough, "t 



On Setting PPljcat. 

 [By Sir Thomas Beevor, bart. to the Secretary.} 



— WITH regard to one fadl mentioned in 



your laft letter, I beg leave to fet you right. • 



f Herein we think Mr. B. perfectly right; and therefore the So- 

 ciety have offered a premium to thofe ploughmen who (hall moft 

 readily adopt and ufe properly the Norfolk plough. 



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