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AMERICAN HUSBANDRY. 



A plough on the same general principles is now 

 used by the Arabs and tlie Moors of North Africa, 

 one of which is figured in Riley's narrative, and of- 

 fers a curious illustration of the unchanging nature 

 of things in the East. 



Among the implements of agriculture enumerated 

 by Hesiod (900 years before Christ) are ploughs 

 and carts. The plough, from his description, must 

 have been much like the following representation of 

 one used in Egypt, and at a later period in the south 

 of France. It consisted of three parts, the beam, 

 handle, and share. Hesiod directs the beam to be 

 made of oak, and the other parts of elm, and they 

 were fastened with nails. 



This, it will be seen, is clearly an improvement 

 on the other, both in the convenience of handling 



