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Winnowing out of doors. Rollers are ufed with great 

 fuccefs in light grounds ; and even in heavy land, 

 when dry, I have ufed a roller after a ploughing and 

 harrowing, and previous to another flirring; in that 

 Cafe I found it nearly equal to a ploughing, the cloddy 

 parts being completely reduced by the operation. The 

 turnip drill-barrow, ufed in the park at Hillfborough, 

 which is pufhed by a man as a common wheel-barrow, 

 is very light, goes on very quickly by changing the 

 wheeler, and diftributes the feed with great precifion. 

 I have been thus particular in defcribing the different 

 implements, ufed in this county, to fhew that we have, 

 in the farming way, many perfons attentive to what- 

 ever is looked upon as likely to promote improvement 

 in hufbandry, and likewife to difTeminate, as far as it is 

 in my power, the knowledge of what is ufefuh 



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