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"A plough of the bar-share sort costs 

 forty-three dollars, without any iron work. 

 The share of this plough has a bar of 

 iron, which comes to the land handle, or 

 still ; a bolt from the share, or bar, through 

 the beam ; another bolt through the 

 land -still ; and through the other still, and 

 mould-board, there is a sheath, but no head. 

 The coulter has a hole at the back ; the 

 share-point is made round, and goes into it; 

 the end of the coulter is flat, and lies on 

 the ground like the point of our English 

 share. Many of the ploughs in make re- 

 semble a glut-wedge, being narrow before 

 and wider behind ; and if the sod were 

 tough, as the English sward, it would 

 scarcely set it on its edge, much less turn 

 it over: but there being no sod, the plough 

 roots up the soil, and leaves it on its edge, 

 having no breast or turn in the upper 

 part of the mould -board. The horses 

 draw double, as in England. There is 

 what they call a shovel-plough, something 

 like a paring : spade, that I do not think 



