3<>6 Of the Hoe-Plough, &c. Chap. XXIII. 



their Ends to the Bar, Four Feet Ten Inches long 

 and from thence to the Plank Ten Inches, and Three 

 Inches and an half fquare at the Bar. 



I is the Whipper. K, L, are its Notches, where* 

 unto the Traces both of the ThilJer, and of the 

 Horfe next before him, are fattened. The Length 

 of the Whipper is uncertain ; but when we hoe be- 

 twixt Rows, when the Plants are grown high, we 

 make it as fhort as it can be, without galling the 

 Horfe's Legs by the Traces. 



We fet this Plough to go deeper or mallower by 

 the Chain of the Limbers ; the changing of whofe 

 Links to the Crook M has the fame Effect as change- 

 ing the Pins to different Holes of the Crow-ftaves of 

 a common Plough. 



Fig. 2. is the Beam with its Mortife and Holes; its 

 Crooking down at the Tail is not very material; but 

 it caufes the hinder Sheat to be a little the fhorter be- 

 low the Beam, whereby it may be fomething the 

 lighter, and yet of the fame Strength as if it were 

 longer. Its whole Length is Four Feet Ten Inches: 

 We make its Breadth and Thicknefs fuch, that it 

 may be as light as it can be without Bending. A is 

 the Mortife thro' which the hinder Sheat paffes. B is 

 the Mortife for the fore Shear, upon which it is pinned 

 up. C is a Hole in the Beam, into which the End of 

 the left Handle being driven, holds it from moving, 

 and is the bed: Manner of fattening this Handle of a 

 Plough. D, E, are the Holes, thro' which the Two 

 Legs of the double Retch pafs, and are there held up 

 by their Nuts. F is the Coulter-hole. G is the hinder 

 Hole, by which the Plough is held up to the Plank, 

 H and I are the Two foremoft Holes of the Beam, 

 thro' one or the other of which paries the Pin which 

 holds the Beam to the fore Part of the Plank. Thefe 

 Holes mutt be made as near together as they can be, 

 without Danger of fplitting them one into another ; 

 to pre\ ent which there are feveral Ways: The one is 

 by driving in Two fquare Pins crofs the Beam, under 



the 



