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On Duckefs Skim Coulter Plough^ by Richard Peters^ 

 Esquire, 



Read June 14, 1814. 



Belmont, Mmj 23d, IS 14. 

 Sir, 



The enclosed draft of Ducket's Skim Coulter, 

 I think well worthy of insertion, either in our memoirs, 

 or the selections annexed to them. Mr. Ducket was 

 a distinguished ^a/zr/- farmer. He is highly eulogized 

 by A7'thur Young, and is one of the "three cele- 

 brated British farmers," whose husbandry 

 afforded the subjects of Mr. Young''s lecture, read 

 to the Board of Agriculture, June 6, 1811. Mr. Duck- 

 et is much praised for the whole of his agricultural 

 operations ; and, no doubt, deservedly. Pie had Mr. 

 Young''s approbation, peculiarly, for his use o^ long or 

 fresh dung, m preference to that rotted. He, with a 

 Mr. Arhuthnot, also mentioned in the same lecture, al- - 

 ways ploughed, or trenched, deeply for ** depositing ma- 

 nure, without any apprehension of losing it,'*'' If the 

 practice of using long and fresh dung should be exten- 

 sively introduced here, I believe nothing will ensure 

 its success, and guard against the ardent heats of our 

 climate, so effectually, as trenching it in with the trench 

 plough ; or using the skim coulter described and shown 

 in the plate. Whatever may be my opinion on the 

 subject, I think it fair and candid to render every as- 

 sistance to those who are desirous of following a prac- 

 tice, which has in its fiivour the weight of such respect- 

 able authorities. 



