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potatoe drills ; a double mold<-board plough for earth- 

 ing them up ; alfo a plough for taking them out of the 

 ground, which laft inftrument, I underfland, does the 

 bufmefs very completely : a drawing of which is here- 

 unto annexed. The fame gentleman ufes a horfe-hoe- 

 ing plough, in all operations where it is required. 

 Likewife a drill-barrow,* for beans, &c. 



Of harrows I have not much to fay, only, that the 

 above mentioned ingenious cultivator places the teeth 

 with thp edge towards the line of draught, having 

 them previoufly formed like the blade of a knife, the 

 better to cut the furrows. His harrow for going be- 

 tween the potatoe drills, and eradicating the weeds be- 

 fore they are horfe-hoed, is a very nice machine j by 

 means of the handles, and a hinge in the middle, they 

 can be accommodated to any diftance : a drawing ac- 

 companies this. Befides this, he ufes a potatoe or 

 turnip cutter, and a ftraw ditto ; likewiie a potatoe 

 wafher, his own invention, of which I have alfo made 

 a drawing j by taking out one of the bars the potatoes 

 are put in, this is replaced, and by turning the handle, 

 the wafher Handing about half way in water, the bufi- 

 nef% is quickly and effectually done. But the ftraw 

 cutter, imported by Mr. Moore of Eglantine, is a mofl 

 complete machine ; the knives are placed in a wheel, 

 the ftraw in a box, which regularly delivers it, and it is 



* Seminators for the drill, of a new conftruftion, may 

 be feen at the repofitory of the Society. 



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