46 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



exen can be only employed to advantage. 



The common trace and collar is the general mode of 

 harnefling in ploughing. 



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SECT. 5. Nature and ufe of Implements of Hujbandry. 



VERY little can be fatd, in general, in favour of our 

 implements of hufbaudry. 



The common plough is a moft wretched implement; 

 it performs very badly, and, from its conft ruction, is 

 very difficult to draw. Inftead of having the coulter 

 in a line with the land fide of the fock, or plough fhare, 

 it is generally placed an inch nearer the land, or to the 

 left hand ; and, inftead of the coulter being fet a little 

 before the fock, it is placed rather behind ir, fo that, 

 by this means, the draught is confiderably encrcafcd. 

 On account of the point of the fock not being guarded 

 by the coulter, the former is always made of iron, in- 

 flead of metal, which is always attended with trouble 

 and expence. From this mode of fixing the plough- 

 irons, it is pkiin there are two obftruclions to encoun- 

 ter with, in place of one : the fock rather opens the 

 land firft ; the coulter cuts after, but never a clear or 

 fair open furrow, which may be eafily conceived. 



Some gentlemen there are, however, who follow a 

 better fyftem. A plough got fome years ago from 

 Colloo, one from Lord Longford in the county of 



"Weftmeath, 



