48 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



CHAPTER V. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



THE implements of husbandry in general ufe are 

 few and fimple. Cars for draught, ploughs for til- 

 lage, of no great ingenuity in their fabric, but light 

 and ftrong; harrows either for one or two horfes, 

 differing from each other in fize, not in conftruftion ; 

 except in fomc inftances, where the latter have a hinge 

 in the middle, to accommodate the fhape of the imple- 

 ment to the ridge. In the hands of gentlemen, and of 

 fome firfl rate farmers, there are many new imple- 

 ments. In their fyftem carts are often preferred to 

 cars, and although thefe in large farms may give way 

 to them, with fmall farmers they muft hold their 

 place j the expenfe of the former being above the 

 reach of their finances. If no other inconvenience 

 was to be the refult, it would not be of much confe- 

 quence ; as a car well fitted with all its furniture, of 

 fideboards, for carrying manure, potatoes, &c. and a 

 crib, calculated for holding a load of turf, is fufficient 

 for moft purpofes, either of carriage or of agriculture, 



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