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and the beam a little longer, as well as the share point a 

 little farther from the wheels. 



Mr. Hn.L remarks, that there are tliree sorts of plough- 

 wheels used in West Norfolk; first, all of cust-iron ; se- 

 cond, wooden boxes, spokes, and fellies shod with 

 iron ; tiiird, wooden boxes and spokes, with rims of ham- 

 mered iron. The first are good and safe while at work, 

 but very apt to break as thev move through stony lanes ; 

 the third are light, and do well in dry weather; but the 

 second are the most durable ; he thinks they last out ten 

 sets of the cast-iron, and two sets of the iron-rims. He 

 uses the cast shares of Messrs. Gurney and Co. ; No. 6 

 of these he mucli approves. Cast-iron wheels are lOs. 6d. 

 a pair ; wooden ones 30s. 



They do not use wheels o( unequal height in Norfolk, 

 common in Hertfordshire, &c. because in one-furrow 

 work (a species of half-ploughing), the wheels would be 

 reversed, the high one run on the land, and ihc low one 

 in the furrow, as the plough turns the contrary way. 



The line of tradion, from the tuck of the collar to the 

 heel of the plough, passes tlrrough the axletree- 

 The ploughs are a foot wide at the heel. 

 In the south-west angle of the county, and from Wy- 

 mondham, swing-ploughs only are used. On different 

 farms T followed several of them, most of which were ill 

 construdled ; they ride on the nose, to use the farming term, 

 not going close at heel, adefedl arising from the shortness 

 of the beam. 



It would be improper to omit noticing the high opinion 

 ■which the great agriculturist, Mr. Coke, has of the 

 Norfolk wheel-plough ; which goes so far as to induce 

 him to be always ready to bet it against any other, on any 

 soil ; and he has in several trials been successful. But for 

 •want of minutes being kept of such trials, and, above all, 



for 



