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Guillaume's plough, for which he obtained the pre- 

 mium from the French agricultural board, 240. 



Note. The three first ploughs are worked with three 

 horses and one man, the latter with two horses and one 

 man. 



The furrows were taken nine inches wide, and five 

 inches deep. 



Mr. Parker's double furrow plough, 500. 



The two furrows 24 inches wide, and five inches deep, 

 and the plough worked with three horses and one man. 



The comm,encement of working with this double 

 furrow plough was in March last. On the 21st of May, 

 an essay was made to ascertain the quantity of ground, 

 which could be ploughed with it in a given time. 



A piece of land, 860 feet (French measure) long, and 

 24 feet wide, making 51 perches, (containing each perch 

 20 feet square, amounting to 20,412 feet English mea- 

 sure, half an English acre,) was ploughed in an hour, 

 including two stoppages of the plough of six minutes, 

 to change a bolt. The furrows were five inches deep, 

 and 12 inches wide ; the 24 feet, being ploughed by 

 24 furrov/s, or six turns of the plough. It was worked 

 by three horses and one man, the ploughman having 

 the reins of the horses. 



A field of strong land, which was sown in 1806 with 

 wheat, and gave 30 English bushels to the acre, w^as 

 sown in April last with buck- wheat, which was plough- 

 ed in, the latter end of July for manure ; has been 

 ploughed with two double furrowed ploughs, for wheat 

 this month (October;) it contains 25 acres, and was 

 ploughed in six days, and one third of the seventh day 

 for one plough to finish the two ends. This work 



