*bap. r. THE COUNTY OF FIF. 



ly used, and has given way to others more sim-* 

 pie, and equally answerable. 



Besides the hand-hoe, there are two kinds for 

 horse-hoeing; one for the purpose of laying 

 away the earth from potatoes, turnip, or drilled 

 beans, which is made quite close on the left side, 

 to prevent the earth from falling upon, and co- 

 vering up the young plants ; but is otherwise 

 mounted like a common plough, only of a smal- 

 ler size. The other, designed to lay back the 

 earth to the plants, is usually furnished with a 

 mould-board on each side, moveable on joints at 

 the sheath, which consequently can be more or 

 less spread out, and fixed at any width, which 

 the distance of the drill rows may require. It 

 has sometimes two socks or shares, one like that 

 of the common plough, and another broad, ob- 

 tuse pointed, and of a sharp edge, designed to 

 cut the weeds, clean the bottom of the furrow, 

 and to raise up more earth to be laid to the rows. 



The Reaping Hook needs scarcely t6 be taken 

 notice of. This instrument continues much the 

 same that it has been for time immemorial, and 

 probably is incapable of any material improve- 

 ment. In some places, and on^ particular occa- 

 sions, when reapers have been scarce. cutting grain 

 with the scythe has been practised* But as a 

 sufficient supply of hands can generally b'e pro- 

 cured in this populous county, this mode of reap- 

 ing has not become an object of consideration^ 

 nor is it constantly followed by any one* 



Wheel-Carriages have undergone the same im- 

 provements, and are brought to the same per- 

 fection, in this, as in other counties. These used 

 in husbandry are chiefly of two kinds, the close 

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