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and one man only ; upon which fame acre, the 

 labour formerly was not performed, without 

 the help of two horfes, four oxen, a plowman, 

 and a driver. 



This matter is, as ufual in fuch cafes, ftrangely 

 mifreprefented by the prejudiced ; they affert, 

 that the advocates of the new hufbandry, pre- 

 tend to plow all forts of foils with only two 

 horfes, which is by no means true. Nobody 

 objecls to an additional number of horfes upon 

 heavy and flubborn foils, fuch as, for inftance, 

 Pinner, in Middlefex, and many other places 

 which might be named ; they only requeft leave 

 to fmile at the burlefque of employing four or 

 five great black horfes, and two men, to plow 

 in a day, an acre of land, which two good 

 jack-affes would fiir in the fame fpace of time ; 

 and to be informed that many a farmer, in a 

 hurrying time, has ranfacked his whole neigh- 

 bourhood to hire horfes, and even loft a part 

 of his feed-time, rather than degrade himfelf by 

 fending a plough into the field, with one boric 

 lefs than the quota eftablifhed by the cuftom of 

 the country. 



The chief difficulty of new regulation in re- 

 fpecl to ploughing, perhaps, lies with the la- 

 bourers. Many farmers I have known, in dif- 

 ferent counties, defirous enough of ploughing 

 as they do in Effex and Suffolk, Without having 

 influence enough over their to induce 



them 



