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Guillaume’s plough, for which he obtained the pre- 
mium from the French agricultural board, 240. } 
Note. The three first ploughs are worked with three _ 
horses and one man, the latter with two horses and one hug 
man. | 
The furrows were taken nine inches wide, and fives 1. 
inches deep. ; . am) 
Mr. Parker’s double furrow plough, 500. 
‘The two furrows 24 inches wide, and five inches ede ‘- 
and the plough worked with three horses and one man. at 
The commencement of working with this doutile’ al 
furrow plough was in March last. On the 21st of May, 
an essay was made to ascertain the quantity of ground, 
which could be ploughed with it in a given time. 
A piece of land, 860 feet (French measure) long, and 
24 feet wide, making 51 perches, (containing each perch 
20 feet square, amounting to 20,412 feet English mea- 
sure, half an English acre,) was ploughed in an hour, 
including two stoppages of the plough of six minutes, 
to change a bolt. The furrows were five inches deep, 
and 12 inches wide; the 24 feet, being ploughed by 
24. furrows, or six turns of the plough. It was worked 
by three horses and one man, the ploughman having 
the reins of the horses. 
A field of strong land, which was sown in 1806 with 
wheat, and gave 30 English bushels to the acre, was 
sown in April last with buck-wheat, which was plough- 
ed in, the latter end of July for manure; has been 
ploughed with two double furrowed ploughs, for wheat 
this month (October ;) it contains 25 acres, and was 
ploughed in six days, and one third of the seventh day 
for one plough to finish the two ends. This work 
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