chap. VI. THE COUNTY OF FIFE. 



that is uneven, and starts up into hard, lumpy, 

 and tough points or eminences, the jointed har- 

 row can bear upon these with only half its 

 weight at a time ; but when the other is drawn 

 right across them, they have to sustain the 

 weight of the whole harrow, and consequently 

 will more readily give way. To answer every 

 purpose for which the break-harrow is neces- 

 sary, and at the same time, to save the expence 

 of having more than one ; the jointed kind may 

 be made to act occasionally as if it were all one 

 piece, by the application of one or two strong 

 cross bars so fitted as to be conveniently put 

 on and removed, as circumstances may require. 



There is also a small light harrow used by 

 many of the farmers for covering grass seeds. 

 This is very proper, especially when the grasses- 

 are sown among young springing grain of any 

 kind, as there is no danger of its tearing up the 

 young plants, which the larger harrow ofte.n. 

 does. 



Rollers are much used, and now considered 

 as necessary implements in husbandry. They 

 are either of stone, or cast iron, or wood, from 

 five feet to five feet and a half long, and of dif- 

 ferent diameters and weight, according to the 

 materials <5f which they are formed, and the 

 purposes they are meant to serve. They are 

 sometimes made to consist of two pieces ; and, 

 if made of wood, the pieces bound, each at both 

 ends, with hoops of iron, and moveable inde- 

 pendently of one another. 



As different kinds of ground, and the diffe- 

 rent purposes of rolling, may require rollers of 

 different weight, it might be proper to make the 



