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work for two horfes is a ftatute acre, and, in times 

 of feeding, it is very common to plough an acre 

 and an half. 



One man looks after four horfes and drives two 

 of them ; the other two are driven by a day la- 

 bourer, who does little jobs about the yard, at 

 the interval, while his horfes reft, and in the even- 

 ing. This mode is worth imitation in all other 

 light parts of England. 



As ploughing is done here with fo much 

 eafe, it is an encouragement to the farmer to give 

 it the more tilths, which, in fome meafure accounts 

 for the land being fo clean ; but I apprehend 

 there is another reafon, which is, the (hallow 

 ploughing obferved in this county, compared with 

 many other parts of England. Land is undoubt- 

 edly kept cleaner (a) by fhallow than deep plough- 

 ing, and, in light land, the moifture is more 

 preferved by having a pan at the bottom ; and 

 there is likewile a much lefs body of earth to ma- 

 nure and keep in heart. The great fecret with 

 ploughed land feems to be in keeping it fo clean 

 that nothing (hall grow but what is ("own upon it; 

 and to keep the furface in a pulverized (late, fo as 

 to be open and mellow to receive benefit from the 

 influence of the atmofphere. 



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