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The Landed Interest. 



The 

 double- 

 furrow 

 plough. 



General 

 use of 

 steam- 

 power in 

 manipula- 

 tion of 

 crops. 



Successive 

 corn-crops. 



enclosures. The saving of labour is great in 

 suitable localities, but it is not so uniformly 

 applicable, nor does it so certainly and quickly 

 repay its cost as the reaping-machine. On light 

 and friable soils the double-furrow plough, 

 balancing itself with greatly less friction in 

 proportion than the single plough, is found to 

 do the same work with one man and three 

 horses as two single ploughs with two men and 

 four horses. This is equal to a saving of 50 

 per cent, in man-power, and 25 per cent, in 

 horse-power, and it will become more generally 

 available on the lighter soils if any serious 

 pressure arises from scarcity of labour. In the 

 threshing of corn, and cutting of straw and hay 

 for fodder, and the grinding and bruising of 

 corn and cake for horse and cattle food, the aid 

 of steam-power has long been used by the 

 farmers of this country. 



Next to the economy of labour may be 

 ranked the increase of produce by the expe- 

 dient of taking two corn-crops in succession 

 where the land is clean and in high condition, 

 and can bear the application of special manure, 



