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prevalent ; — that a spirit of inquiry is awakened that 

 will be productive of good results ; — and that the origin 

 of many of these benefits may be traced to the influence 

 of Agricultural Associations. 



Look for example to the improved implements that 

 have been brought into use, and particularly the 

 ploughs, since the first trials at our Exhibitions ; — and 

 if you remember those then in use, bring to recollection 

 their forms, for I presume none such can now be found, 

 (certainly not in the use of any one who has any claim 

 to be considered a respectable farmer) and compare 

 them with those now seen and used. Will any one for 

 a n)oment hesitate to acknow^ledge the great superiority 

 of the patterns of ploughs presented at our Exhibitions 

 for two years last past. Superior in every point of view, 

 both as to the manner in which the work is finished, and 

 the ease with which it is done by man and beast, I 

 cannot doubt at all, that one third part of the labor ne- 

 cessary in this department of farming may be saved by 

 these improvements. 



I am not unmindful of the variety of opinions that ex- 

 ists as to the best model for a plough ; that what will be 

 highly esteemed by one, will be thought worthless by 

 another. So great is the variety of work to be done by 

 the plough, and so various are the modes of performing 

 it, that it is necessary to settle in the first place, how 

 the furrow is to be cut and laid, and then select the im- 

 plement that will do it in the best manner. This hav- 

 ing been done, notwithstanding the sneers of foreigners 

 upon our yankee implements,* I say with confidence, it 

 will be difficult to construct ploughs better adapted to 

 the purpose, than some we now have. 



Possibly there may be those who will admit the fact 

 of the superiority of the implements, but still deny that 



* This remark alludes to the account of a trial of ploughs lately in England, 

 at Mhich the American Ploughs are spoken of as altogether inferior to the 

 English Plouglis. The American ploughs are designed to cut a icide furroAV 

 ami lay \ijint; the English ploughs are designed to cut a ?iarrotv furrow, and 

 set it on ciJi^e, at an angle of 45" ; — each good for the ohject in view, but not 

 calculated for a different ol)ject. The Englisii ploughs and the Scotch ploughs, 

 that I have seen, for our work, are far inferior to our own. 



