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with plagiarism. The one is a foot the other a wheel 

 plough. The public must decide which is best. 



"Sir Edward Stracey says, he invented his plough 

 in the year 1833. He adds, I have broken up near- 

 ly five hundred acres of heath land with this plough; 

 my crops have been nearly doubled, the wheat pro- 

 duced on the land so broken up, has been fine plump 

 grain, weighing about sixty three and a half pounds 

 to the imperial bushel; and it has brought the best 

 price in the market, when before the deep plough- 

 ing, the land scarcely produced the seed; the wheat 

 was poor and shrivelled; and as I had no manure to 

 lay on the ground I can ascribe the goodness of the 

 crop to nothing but the deep ploughing." 



" For planting trees this plough far exceeds dig- 

 ging, as, by proper management, the soil may be 

 broken two feet deep all around; instead of the 

 young trees being crammed into a little hole, where 

 they have no room to breathe; and the whole may 

 be done at a fourth, of the expense of trenching. 

 Some of my neighbors are getting these ploughs for 

 the express purpose of planting." — British Farmer's 

 Magazine, for Jidi/, 1837. 



