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about ten or twelve Inches at each end. Upon 

 the extremities of thefe crofs-pieces are fixed 

 two rails, — provincialiy, ^* fhelvings," — one 

 on each fide ; thus increafing the width and 

 hoUownefs of the bed of the fledge, and 

 thereby rendering it capable of carrying ^ 

 larger load with greater fleadinefs. 



IV. Moulding Sledge. This implement^ 

 I apprehend, is peculiar to Yorkfliirc. 



Its USE is that of fmoothing the furfacc 

 of meadows ; at the fame time fprcading 

 the dung and molehills. 



The CONSTRUCTION is that of the body of 

 the common ficdge, without its fide-rails and 

 crofs-pieces j the upper edges of the fide- 

 pieces (of the body of the fljdge) being for 

 this purpofe made perfedly flraight. 



In ufe, it is drawn with the face downward, 

 and the fide forcmou, acrofs the ridges. 



Its efedl is different from that of the 

 Landplane defcribed in the Minutes of 

 Agriculture, which having a middle bar, 

 ievcis the furface ; v/hercas this, having no 

 middle bar, only /moot k 5 it. 



The FRONT BAR (namely, thc_y?^<f which is 



drawn foremoft) forces off worm-cads, the 



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