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right line ; by having his horses yoked double, and 

 driven by himself with cords, l>e sees these poles 

 between the horses, and by keeping his plough to 

 bear always upon the poles, he draws his first fur- 

 row as straight as possible*: in returning, he keeps 

 his far-side horse in the new-made furrow, and his 

 plough at such a distance as to form a one-bout 

 ridge, like an A ; by proceeding in this manner, 

 the land, when finished, will appear thus: 



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the distance of these little ridges is generally from 

 27 to 30 inches : a less distance does not admit 

 ploughing between the drills. 



" The next operation is spreading the dung, which 

 is performed as follows : a cart goes down every 

 third drill, and lays the dung in small heaps; wo- 

 men and children follow, and with small three- 

 pronged forks spread the dung evenly in the bot- 

 tom of three drills, that is, in the one where the 

 dung is dropped from the cart, and those on each 

 side of it : when this is done, the ploughman splits 

 the one-bout ridges, and covers up the dung ex- 

 actly in the middle of a one-bout ridge ; but be- 

 fore the seed can be sown, they require to be flat- 

 tened at the top by a small roller, four feet eight 

 inches long, and Q inches diameter, which flat- 

 tens two ridges at once : on the top, and exactly in 



* Our Suffolk ploughmen do this in perfc6tion, by a single 

 white stick, even 40 rods from them at beginhing. A. Y. 



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