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CHAPTER VI. 



Implements of Husbandry. 



FORMERLY the implements of husbandry were 

 few, simple, and rudely constructed. But of 

 late, from the progress of agricultural science, 

 the superior and more diffusive knowledge of 

 mechanical arts, and a growing taste for neat- 

 ness and elegance, their number has greatly en- 

 creased, and they have received much improve- 

 ment in the mode of construction and excel- 

 lence of workmanship As it was the principal 

 design, so it has been the happy effect, of these 

 additions and improvements, to facilitate, ex- 

 pedite, and render more perfect, the various ne- 

 cessary operations of husbandry. In mention- 

 ing these implements, we need not take up 

 time with a very particular and minute descrip- 

 tion of them, as they are, in general, the same 

 here as in the neighbouring counties, and have 

 been distinctly described in other agricultural 

 surveys. 



The old Scots plough is now almost entirely 

 gone into disuse, and its place supplied by a 

 small light plough, usually with an iron head 

 and a cast mettle mould-broad, constructed on 



