170 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" form all the operations of horfe-hoeing ;" 

 [and much better than any plough that nas 

 a wheel ; which, as it goes upon the fide 

 of a (loping ridge, is apt to draw the plough 

 too much to the right.] 4< Thofe two inft.ru- 

 * 4 ments may be eafily made, and repaired, by 

 " a country wheelwright. I have feveral 

 44 made in the yjUage where I live, at the 

 * 4 aforefaid prices, which were very perfect, 

 " and have laded feveral years. It is true, I 

 * 4 make ufe of fome other inflruments, which 

 " may be faid to be appendages of the Ne\v 

 44 Hufbandry, as they have been contrived by 

 * 4 the practitioners of it. But the five-coul- 

 44 tered plough, the fingle and double-culti- 

 44 vators, &c. though extremely convenient to 

 * 4 thofe who pradtife this method in a very 

 *' extenfive manner, are by no means necef- 

 ** fary in making trials, or fmall experiments.** 

 [Thete two cultivators are the invention of 

 M. De Chateauvieux ; and may be uleful in 

 fome particular cales, but are by no means 

 proper to be fubltituted for the hoe-plough ; 

 as we mall have occafion to fhew, in treat- 

 ing of Mr. Wynn Baker's experiments upon 

 wheat.] 



44 After the firft year, that is, when the 

 " 'land is reduced to fine order, one horfe is 

 * 4 generally furficient to turn a furrow either 

 44 to or from the rows : and as a man and 

 ** Jiorfe can, with eafe, horie-hoe four acres 

 ** in a day, it cannot cofl more than one (hil- 



44 ling 



