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On a three Fiirroxv Plough. By JVilliam Bakewell, 



Read March 8th, 1808. 



, Fatland Ford, Montgomery Co. Feb, 7, 1808. 

 Dear Sir, 



You expressed a wish to be mformed of the pur- 

 poses to which I apply my three furrow plough, and I 

 with pleasure communicate the account to the agricul- 

 tural society, having found it useful on many occasions, 

 especially on my lightest soils, and such as are free 

 from large stones or other impediments. 



I say nothing of the construction of this plough, as it 

 is described by Mr. Cartwright in the communications 

 to the British board of agriculture ; but to those who 

 have not that work at hand, it may be necessary to ob- 

 serve, that it consists of three shares and three mold 

 plates of iron, fixed in a frame, so as to follow each other 

 at nine inches distance, by which means twenty seven 

 inches of land are ploughed at one time. It is drawn 

 by three horses abreast, and has two wheels to regulate 

 the depth. ' 



After a clover ley has been once ploughed deep, by 

 a common plough, the three furi'ow plough will answer 

 extremely well for skimming the surface, preparatory 

 to sowing with wheat. I have sometimes used it for 

 ploughing in the seed. I also use it on fallows to de- 

 stroy weeds, and between rows of indian corn, in which 

 case, a single plough should first pass close to the com, 

 and as the rows are with me eight feet apart, the three 

 furrow plough, following the other, completes the space 

 between two rows at one 'bout. 



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