CHAP. V. 



IMPLEMENTS. 



FOR more than lialf a century, the implements of 

 Norfolk remained without alteration or addition. ; but of 

 late years many and great improvEmefits have been intro- 

 duced. 



PLOUGHS, 



The common Norfolk wheel-plough varies from other 

 wheel-ploughs in three circumstances: I. By the high 

 pitch of the beam. 2. By the wheels being, when in 

 work, brought so near to the point of the shaic. 3. By 

 the general lightness of the tool, when compared with 

 some others. 



The Hertfordsliire plough has a very long beam, with 

 a low pitch, a circumstance thought in that county to be 

 essential to steadiness of draught ; and when Mr. Arbuth- 

 uoT made a wheel-plough for gaining 1 3 inches depth 

 for the culture of mailder, he adopted a long beam, as es- 

 sential to a great power. 



Whether the second circumstance in the Norfolk plough^ 

 that of the points in the periphery of (he wheels which touch 

 the ground, being so near to ti)e sliarc point, is really a 

 benefit, remains a question, and greatly merits expeiiment 

 to ascertain. 



The general lightness of the plough is probably a merit, 

 when the work is easy ; but when we find it not an un- 

 common pracllce to load the body of the tool with a great 



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