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he has set, followed by the inhabitants of many surrounding 

 parishes. 



Though common farmers are for the most part backward in 

 adopting new plans, yet I never knew any valuable discovery that 

 they did not sooner, or later fall into. So it happened with the 

 double ploughs. For ten years did the person above alluded to use 

 this instrument, and was constant in season, and out of season, in 

 recommending it to others ; (for they who have a true taste for 

 agriculture, enjoy themselves in the communication of every useful 

 discovery) but all in vain, the more warm he was in enforcing its 

 utility, the more reluctant were the common renters in adopting the 

 use of it ; and in all probability it would have remained to the pre- 

 sent day, undistinguished for its superiority, had not the same been 

 manifested at the different trials of ploughs exhibited under the 

 direction of the Bath Agricultural Society. 



At present scarce any other plough is used after the first break- 

 ing ; and I believe I may truly assert, that in comparison with the 

 old ploughs of the district, no less than 100I. per year is saved on a 

 farm of 500 acres. Another mode of management has been for 

 many years past introduced by the person before alluded to, namely,, 

 ploughing by the acre instead of the day. 



The contract is thus conducted ; the master finds oxen and food* 

 and the ploughman labor and a driver. The latter is also bound 

 to attend on the cattle at all times, even when debarred from work 

 by rain, snow, frost, or any other cause. The price is 2s. 2d. per 

 acre for the ploughing of the rough Mendip lands when first in- 

 closed, (this is done with a single plough) and is. 2d. for all other 

 ploughings of every description. 



By this system of management he has annually had more ground 

 ploughed by one team, than his neighbours by tnvo; and it has been 

 no unusual thing for his man and boy to earn regularly per week 

 17s. 6d. that is for 2| acres per day on an average. Nay, his man 

 has repeatedly ploughed with six oxen (in yokes) 20 acres of land, 

 statute measure, in 48 hours ; I mean in six successive days, rec- 

 koning eight hours per day : the breadth of the plit (according to 

 agreement not exceeding nine inches, nor the depth less than four 

 inches,) if the soil was deep enough to admit thereof. 



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