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split. This was the operation of the afternoon : for whilst 

 my double barrow was direded upon a balk, depositing 

 seed in the furrows from the two boxes on each side of 

 the wheel, a double breasted plou2.I1, drawn by two horses, 

 split the balk, covered the wheat so deposited, and com- 

 pletely made up the four-furrow work which had been 

 set out in the morning. The next day I repeated the work 

 precisely the same as the day before, by setting out fresh 

 work from a line formed by two sticks, as at first set up 

 across the field, in a diredtion parallel to the first line 

 draVn, and at such a number of yards from the last line 

 of seed dropped, as I thought would afford work for the 

 day. Thus was the whole of the twelve acres laid into 

 four-furrow work, with three rows of wheat upon every 

 stitch, at the distance of nine inches between the rows, 

 and eighteen inches for the furrows, with no more than 

 five pecks of seed-corn* per acre, and performed by three 

 men, two ploughs, and four horses, in a morning, and 

 two men, one plough, and two horses in an afternoon ; 

 and the whole two acres were finished in a day. I rolled 

 it afterwards to please the eye, level the work, reduce the 

 depth to which the seed was deposited, and afford mould 

 in the furrows to support the wheat on the sides of them. 

 As soon as the wheat came up I cleaned the furrows by a 

 plough with expanding wings, drawn by one horse. In 

 the spring I contiived to fix upon this plough two scari- 

 fiers, and taking off the expanding wings, I used it to lioe 

 the furrows, and at the same time scarify two rows of 

 y.'heat, one on each side of the furrow : afterwards 1 put 

 on the expanding wings, and substituting hoes for scari- 

 fiers, I by one operation of this plough hoed the furrows 

 and two rows of wheat, and at the same time moulded- 

 them up : this operation was performed twice. 



" Thus, Sir, have I given you as clear an account as 



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