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a very dry time in July, they looked so yellow and 

 blue, that he almost despaired of them. He sent in his 

 plou2;hs ; and a gentleman, who had seen them when 

 the ploughs went in on the Monday, could scarcely be- 

 lieve his eyes when he saw them on the next Saturday, 

 though it had continued dry all the week. 



124. To perform these summer ploughings, in this 

 island, is really nothing. The earth is so light and in 

 such fine order, and so easily displaced and replaced. 

 I used one horse for the purpose, last summer, and a 

 very slight horse indeed. An ox is, however,, better 

 for this work ; and this may be accomplished by the 

 use of a collar and two traces, or by a sinyle yoke and 

 two traces. Till recommends tlie hitter ; and 1 shall 

 try it for Indian corn as well as for turnips.* Horses, 



♦ Since the above paragraph was written, I have made a 

 single-ox-j/oke : and, I find it answer excellently well. Now, 

 my work is much shortened ; tor, in forming ridges, two oxen 

 are awkward. They occupy a wide space, and one of them is 

 ohliged to walk upon the ploughed land, which, besides making 

 the ridge uneven at top, presses the ground, which is injurious. 

 For ploughing between the rows of turnips and Indian corn 

 also, what a great convenience this will be! An ox goes 

 steadier tiian a horse, and will plough deeper, without fretting 

 and without tearing; and he wants neitiier harness-maker nor 

 {•room. The plan of my yoke I took from Tull. I showed it 

 to my workman, who chopped off the limb of a tree, and made 

 the yoke in an hour. It is a piece of wood, with two holes to 

 receive two ropes, about three quarters of an iuch in diameter. 

 These traces are fastened into the yoke merely by a knot, which 

 prevents the ends from passing though the holes, while the 

 other ends are fastened to the two ends of a fViffle-tree, as it is 

 called in Long Island, of a Wipple-tree as it is called in Kent, 

 and of a fVippance, as it is called in Hampshire. I am but a 

 poor draftsman; but, if tlie printer can iind any thing to make 

 the rejiresentation with, the following draft will clearly show 

 what 1 have meant to describe in words — 



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