294 MINUTES AUG, 



122. morning before they went to their day's work , at 

 CATJER P noon w ^ ien ^y came home to dinner, and at night 



when they returned from work) drew the elder- 

 brufh over the plants. The piece is about three 

 acres, and it generally employed them about an 

 hour and a half; efpecially in the morning, when 

 the dew made the elder drag heavy. He has 

 ufcd the brufh about ten days, in which time 

 He has renewe4 the elder three times ; and it is 

 now nearly worn out. 



After looking attentively for fome time 

 among the plants, I faw only two caterpillars ; 

 and fo healthy a piece of turneps I do not re- 

 collect to have feen : they have been fown only 

 three weeks, yet they are now fit for the hoe. 



In riding towards North Reps, I faw a fimilar 

 machine ; but this is made of the rough boughs, 

 not the twigs. It is a large aukward unmanage- 

 able thing : the woody crooked boughs, fomc 

 of them almoft as thick as the vvrift, drag up 

 or lacerate the plants ; whereas the ftraight 

 twigs, lying flat and evenly upon the ground, 

 lhake them in a mod effectual manner, without 

 doing them the fmalleft injury ; every plant is 

 kept in a quivering motion from the time the 

 rope touches it until it be paffed by the laft leaf: 

 and, perhaps, in this confifts the merit of the 

 invention. 



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