ehap. II. OF DRILL-PLOUGHS. 429 



It is likewife evident, that in order to give the Hiare a greater or 

 lefs degree of entrance into the earth, nothing more is requilite than 

 to place the beam nearer to, or farther from, the right hand fliaft: 

 for the horfes, which are harneffed one before another, go, as 

 does alfo the wheel, in the laft made furrow, and the plowman 

 goes in the furrow actually making. 



d. d. Hooks to faften on the harneffes of the horfes. 



e. e. Cramps to faften the fore-carriage. 



f. f. Pins to faften the beam to the fheat. 



g. g. Pegs to faften the crofs ftaves. 



I). A ftrong pin which goes through the hole /, to keep the 

 uiould board fteady. . 



CHAP. ir. 



Of D r I l l - Pl ou g h s,. 



SECT. I. 

 Of Mr. Worlidge'j Drill-Piougb. 



THE two firft inventions of this kind were Mr. Worlidge's drill- 

 plough, and Don Jofeph de Lucatello's Sembrador j both of 

 which may claim the merit of being originals, x'^s neither Mr. TuU, 

 nor M. Duhamel, have taken any notice of this inftrument of Mr. 

 Worlidge, which we are perfuaded will fully anfwer all the ends he 

 propofes, we think it a juftice due to one of the beft writers on agri- 

 culture, to give his own account of it. 



" Befides the ufual manner of fowing corn, there are," fays he, 

 " feveral other ways of difperfmg it, as by fetting, and hoeing of it 

 *' in, ^c. This art of fetting corn, feems to be very ancient, as ap- 

 " pears by Virgil, JJnguibus infodhint & ipfis fruges — and hath been 

 <' along time attempted to be brought into practice again, as appears 

 ♦' by Mr. Piatt's Adam s Tool Revived" . Mr. Worlidge then points 

 out the defedls in Mr. Piatt's inftruments, and proceeds thus. 



" But to remedy and remove all manner of errors and inconve- ■ 

 " niences that can be found in fetting of corn, 1 fhall here give you 

 " a plain and perfedl defcription of an eafy and feafible inftrument, 

 " that fhall difperfe your corn, grain, or pulfe, of what kind foever, 

 " at what dillance, and in what proportion you pieafe to defign, 



and 



