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4< quires no nicety, no ingenuity ; any man 

 ** that can plough a tolerable ftraight furrow, 

 " can do all that is required." [The author 

 feems here to refer wholly to fowing upon 

 level ground, and not upon ridges ; which 

 are in general much preferable to level 

 ground to fow upon, or to be horfe hoed. 

 The double-board plough here mentioned 

 is very proper to open furrows into which 

 potatoes are to be dropped by hand, or 

 beans; and in fuch rows as are at a con- 

 (iderable diftance, and require no great ex- 

 actnefs to plant the feed in regard to 

 diftance and depth ; but, where that is re- 

 quired, a drill-plough is much preferable to 

 fowing feed in thefe open furrows, and co- 

 vering it afterwards, as it muft be, by the 

 plough, or by a hand-hoe ; and the feed 

 in this way is not fo certainly covered at an* 

 equal depth, as with a drill-plough. -Nei- 

 ther can corn or any feed be thus fown 

 ftraight, as of wheat at a foot diftance, to 

 be hand-hoed. The drill-plough is in every 

 refpecl: the beft inftrument by much to fow 

 regularly, ftraight, at an equal diilance 

 and depth, and mod expeditioufly ; and 

 horfe-hoeing wheat, and many other plants, 

 is much preferable upon ridges to level 

 ground.] 



" The third inftrument is what the in- 

 44 ventor [Mr. Baldwin] calls, I think, a horfe- 

 *< Koe ; it is little more than au harrow, fo 



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