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^th. Encourage the use of such ploughs, mid other h u.'vents, as are 

 best calculated to expedite work and do it aw//. 



Admitting that there are only one hundred and fifty thousand 

 acres of tillage in the whole county, and that the same are ploughed 

 on an average twice ; allowing also that one third of this is of so 

 hilly a nature, that a wheel plough cannot be used to advantage, 

 there will remain one hundred thousand acres capable of being 

 turned with the double plough. 



For the sake of argument, let it be also admitted that three 

 horses, a man and a boy, with the common plough of the country, 

 will turn an acre a day, and that the double plough with four 

 horses, and the same number of attendants, will turn two acres. 

 The number of acres will of consequence be ploughed in half the 

 time, and the difference in expence, cannot exceed two shillings 

 per day. Here then might be a saving of twenty thousand pounds 

 per annum, -in this article alone, besides the inestimable advantage 

 of expediting work at certain seasons. 



Some may doubt the possibility of making the double plough so 

 generally useful ; but I can truly say, I have never yet found an 

 instance, where it could not be worked to advantage, and it is well 

 known, that on the various trials made under the auspices of the 

 Bath Society, on lands of the most difficult nature-, my man, with 

 the double plough, has always gained the prize. 



In the counties of Wilts and Dorset, where three large and pow- 

 erful horses are put to a single plough, the saving by such an in- 

 strument would be immense ; and this I can confirm, by the testi- 

 mony of some eminent farmers of the first named county, who in 

 consequence of my recommendation, have introduced them on 

 their respective farms, with great profit and success. 



10th. Sow early in exposed, and cold situations, and be particularly 

 careful not to plough or harrow in wet 'weather. 



The necessity of this caution is so well known to all practical 

 farmers, that I need not, I trust, enforce it, 



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