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carts properly constructed, will do no more than double the work in harvest, 

 than can be done by waggons ; but were the difference only from two to three 

 days in a week, that is of immense consequence in a precarious climate. Dr 

 Anderson's Recreations, vol. iv. p. 112. Waggons are sometimes detained 

 two hours in a field before they are filled. 



201 Lord Robert Seymour's Paper, Annals of Agriculture, vol. xxvii. 

 p. 337. It is there maintained, that two horses singly, will do as much as three 

 conjunctively. 



202 Paper by Arthur Young, Esq. Annals of Agriculture, vol. xviii. p. 178. 

 In Ireland, the Scotch dray and cart are very generally in use, the former for 

 conveying goods and merchandise, and the latter for agricultural purposes. 

 From 20 to 25 cwt. is a very common load for one horse under a dray, which 

 generally travels at the rate of 20 miles per day. Remark by Edward Bur- 

 roughs, Esq. 



203 Middlesex Report, p. 94. 



204 Surrey Report, p. 139. It is surprising that so prudent and intelli- 

 gent a people as the English did not find this out long since. Remark by 

 Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



205 Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. ii. p. 415. 



206 Ibid. vol. ii. p, 4 17. 



207 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 61. 



208 Remark by Edward Burroughs, Esq. 



209 Middlesex Report, p. 94. 



210 Anderson's Recreations, vol. iv. p. 14. 



211 See Chap. III. Sect. 3. 



212 Buckinghamshire Report, p. 114. Mr Coke of Holkham has a cast-iron 

 roller that cost L 60. It weighs three tons and a half. It is five feet six inches 

 in diameter, as well as in length. It leaves the grass fields in the best possible 

 order. Young's Norfolk, p. 50. 



213 Essex Report, vol. i. p. 147. The drill roller is an efficient instrument 

 for breaking down the clods of rough fallows. Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 46. 

 The spike roller is well calculated for stony clays, and will bring them into .1 

 pulverized state, at a trifling expense. By the common roller, large lumps can- 

 not be reduced, unless they are in a moist state ; whereas the spike roller will 

 accomplish that object, however large or hard they may be. Remark by Edward 

 Burroughs, Esq. 



214 Husbandry of Scotland, vol. i. p. 118. 



215 There is an engraving of this implement in the Appendix, Plate IV. It 

 was first heard of at the Board of Agriculture from Wales. Doctor Skene Keith 

 since states, that it has been used in Aberdeenshire for these forty years past. 

 In Lambert's Travels through Lower Canada and the United States of America, 

 (printed in London, an. 1810), vol. ii. p. 109, the following account is given of 

 the American cradle churn : " At a farmer's near Lake Champlain, we saw a 

 machine for churning butter. It was a kind of half barrel, with a place where 

 one of the farmer's sons sat astride as on horseback. The machine moving up 

 and down, answered the double purpose of a churn for making butter, and a rock- 

 ing horse for his children." 



216 Derbyshire Report, vol. ii. p. 56. 



217 In the Communications to the Board of Agriculture, vol. iv. p. 296, there 

 is an account of Mr Pierrepont's mode of baking potatoes, and an engraving of 

 the oven. The plan answers so well, that even large oxen are fattened on them, 

 when thus prepared. 



218 General Report of Scotland, vol. i. p. 248. The calculations of Edward 

 Borroughs, Esq. go still farther. He is confident, after the experience of four 

 years, that he has saved one- third of corn, in the quantity, which his horses would 

 have otherwise consumed, had it been given them unbroken. 



