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lock, 218 livres; tackle for two bullocks, 36. 

 Two carts, 314. A plough and harrow, 123, 

 which, with other expenfes, carne to 45!. 175. 

 and freight i61. i6s. Upon the whole, the 

 experiment coft, from firft to laft, to bring it 

 thoroughly to bear, about an hundred pounds. 

 His Lordmip is perfuaded, that the firft year 

 of his introducing it at large on his farm, 

 faved him the whole. He has purfued the me- 

 thod ever fince, and with the greateft fuccefs. 

 fie finds the bullocks fo perfectly at their eafe, 

 that it is a pieafure to fee them 5 for firft break- 

 ing up lays, and for crofs ploughing, he ufes 

 four, but in all fucceeding earths, only two; 

 nor more for the firft ploughing of ftubbles : 

 I faw fix ploughs doing this in a wheat ftubble, 

 and they did it five or fix inches deep with 

 great eafe. Upon firft introducing it, there 

 was a combination among all his men againft 

 the practice, but Lord Shannon was determin- 

 ed to carry his point; in this matter, he 

 followed a courfe that had all imaginable 

 fuccefs : one lively fenfible boy took to the 

 oxen, and worked them readily. His Lordfhip 

 at once advanced this boy to eight pence a 

 day : this did the bufinefs at once ; others 

 followed the example, and fince that he has 

 had numbers who could manage them, and 

 plough as well as the Frenchman. They 

 plough an acre a day with eafe; and carry 

 very great loads of corn and hay, coals, 6cc. 

 Four bullocks in the French cart brought 

 twelve barrels of coals, {hip meafure, each 

 5 cwt. or three 'tons, but the tackle of the 



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