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on simultaneously in the same field, affording me a 

 good opportunity of seeing the operation of both. Two 

 men were plying the hose upon a portion of the field 

 which had already been mowed three times. Two 

 teams were at work turning up the other, which had 

 already teen cropped once or twice. One of two horses 

 went first, and, with a common English plough, turned 

 an ordinary furrow. Then the other followed, of twice 

 the force of the first, in the same furrow, with a subsoil 

 plough held to the work beam-deep. The iron-stones 

 and ferruginous clods turned up by this " deep tillage " 

 would make a prairie farmer of Illinois wonder, if not 

 shudder, at the plucky and ingenious industry which 

 competes with his easy toil and cheap land in providing 

 bread for the landless millions of Great Britain. 



The only exceptional feature or arrangement, besides 

 the irrigating machinery and process, that I noticed, 

 was an iron hurdling for folding sheep. This, at first 

 sight, might look to a practical farmer a little extrava- 

 gant, indicating a city origin, or the notion of an ama- 

 teur agriculturist, more ambitious of the new than of 

 the necessary. Each length of this iron fencing is 

 apparently about a rod, and cost 1, or nearly five 

 dollars. It is fitted to low wheels, or rollers, on an 

 axle two or three feet in length, so that it can be moved 

 easily and quickly in any direction. It would cost over 



