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at leafl: risking, a certain expence, without any 

 other certainty whatever. 



Suppofe the Norfolk plow, for inftance, to 



be tranfportcd one hundred miles, — and the 



charges of a man, a horfe, and a light cart, 



to be from fixpence to a fliilling a mile, — the 



expence, — to a large occupier, in a country 



where a fandy foil, free from obflrudions, 



and with an ablbrbent fubfoil, is worked by 



three horfes at length with a driver,— would 



i^ot be an objcdl''^. Plowing with two horfes 



without a driver, inftead of three with a 



driver, is, perhaps, the greatefl faving which 



can be introduced upon a farm : and, for the 



foil abovementioned, it would be difficult to 



conftrudt a better plow than that which is now, 



and has been time immemorial, in common 



ufe in Norfolk. 



If I were to hazard an Improvement of the 

 J>«^orfolk plow, it would be the addition of an- 

 other handle ; and to change the pradlice of 

 driving with a whip (to rny mind a very auk- 

 ward bufinefs) to that of driving with whipt 



* In thcfe clays of f^jiritcd improvements In hufbandry. 

 I'.hcn fifty to a hundred guineas are given for one year'* 

 rikic of a ram, five pounds for the introduft'on of a ufe- 

 f'il ira]lcmcnt cannot be deemed extravagant. 



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