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being milked ; and finding tools arid implements for every opera 

 tion, and adapted to all possible shades of difference in the manner 

 of performing it, imagine they have only to purchase the tool to 

 have the operation accomplished. In general they are compelled 

 to learn that it is not so much the tool, as the man who holds it. 

 upon which they are to rely for the proper execution of the work. 

 Of this the Flemings are a striking example j for it is impossible 

 to find agricultural operations better executed, and with fewer 

 and more simple implements. 



Two ploughs are much celebrated in Flanders, one called the 

 Walloon plough, with wheels to the beam, of which I subjoin a 

 sketch, and which is much used for ploughing deep in heavy 

 lands. It is used with two, three, or four horses, according to 

 the nature of the soil, or the depth to which it is desired to go. 



The other is of a lighter description, and is much esteemed as 

 the Dutch plough. It is introduced into France, and there most 

 highly approved. For light lands it is used with one horse, but 

 ordinarily with two. What I have sometimes seen called the 

 Dutch plough has had the mould-board so curved, or rather 

 almost concave, as to offer great resistance ; and rather to press 

 the dirt as if with the hollow of the hand, than to turn it over. 

 The common Flemish plough is undoubtedly an excellent imple 

 ment. It has a shoe or regulator attached to the beam in front, 

 by which the depth of the furrow is regulated. A plate of it is 

 given at the top of the next page. The Flemings value it not 

 only for raising and inverting the land, but for pulverizing it at 

 the same time. 



In the harrows and rollers used in Flanders I saw nothing 

 peculiar. They have bush harrows, and harrows with teeth of 

 iron and of wood. 



