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CHAPTER THE SECOND. 



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SECTION I. 



IMPLEMENTS OF HUSBANDRY. 



XF we except the drilling apparatus, annexed to the com- 

 mon plough, at Wimbifh, the ca(l iron drawling wheel, 

 noticed in the Journal, at Finchingfield, and the improved 

 form of the breafl: plate (or what is generally termed the 

 mould board, in moft ploughs) we fhall find that the inftru- 

 ments generally ufed in the hufbandry of this county, afford 

 but few examples of fingular utility. The fore end or neb 

 of the plate in the Norfolk, and moft other ploughs, (the 

 Rotherham excepted,) rifes from the upper furfacc of the 

 {hear too perpendicularly, and too much at right angles to 

 the line of fridion, or preflTure of earth the plate has con- 

 ftantly to adt againft; working thus abrubtly in the ground, 

 the flice or furrow is violently torn, or burfl from off the 

 land, broken and imperfectly turned over, inftead of being 

 gradually cut, raifecl whole, and whelmed over, as will 

 always be the cafe, when the plough enters the ground 

 obliquely, and at a proper angle, and that the plate or mould 

 board is properly turned for raifing up, and turning the flice 



completely over. 



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