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hardly be required to go much faster. At that speed 

 it would cover four acres a day not of e ploughing,' 

 not of ( harrowing,' not of e rolling,' not of 'scuffling,' 

 not of ' rolling again? ' cross-ploughing,' ' clod- 

 crushing,' ' rolling again,'' ( ridging up,' ' sowing,' 

 and ' harrowing in ; ' but of all these epithet pro- 

 cesses in one comprehensive act and word Cul- 

 tivation. 



Is it not astonishing, with such experiences as we 

 have before us in England, that since the first intro- 

 duction of Steam-power to the notice and assistance 

 of mankind, nobody has ever yet attempted to apply 

 it in its own way to the definite and simple work of 

 cultivation ? It is put to cut chaff, to make saw-dust, 

 to granulate powder, to make pins' heads, to reduce 

 all sorts of coarse material into fine and all by 

 wheels, circular motion, and nothing else, for 

 nothing else will it accept, but nobody can per- 

 suade his mind to believe that by the self-same 

 action, and no other, it can cut up a seam of soil 

 eight inches deep and five feet wide, and leave it 

 behind granulated to as coarse or fine a texture as 

 the nature of the seed or season may require, and 

 inverted in its bed. It is not ploughing, it is not 

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