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neat, and fold very cheap, in caft-iron, at the 

 Norwich Foundery. 



There is alfo another inflrument, juft intro- 

 duced into the Fiegg hundreds, which is an iron 

 bar faflened upon the piough-beam, and project- 

 ing out To as to be dragged by the plough along 

 the middle of the la it furrow, to that which is 

 turning over; the end of the bar being cut into 

 a fort of an edge, is loaded with weights to keep 

 it down, and, by this means, makes a little dent 

 which catches a great deal of corn, and what it 

 does catch, is depofited (where land is only once 

 ploughed) in the middle of the furrow, fo that 

 the feed, when it ftrikes root, has the benefit of 

 the beft part of the flag or inverted turf. This 

 has not been much proved, but it promifes to be 

 of fome benefit, and, I am inclined to think, it 

 will be of mo ft ufe in barley fowing. 



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