|g2 MACHINE FOR LAYING LAND. 



Account of a where It Is to be difcharged. Thus four men, one driver, 

 machine for lay- ^^ J eight head of cattle, will more effe6lually level from half 

 mg land level. '^ >• i i • 



an acre to three roods in one day, according as the earth is 



light or heavy, than fixty or eighty men would accomplifli 

 with barrows and fliovels, &c. even with the affiftance of a 

 plough. In fandy ground where the depth of one furrow 

 will bring all to a level, as much will of courfe be done in 

 one day as two ploughs can cover ; but ray ground required 

 to be gone over feveral times. After this field was levelled, 

 the backs of the ridges, as they are termed, which were 

 Gripped of their vegetable mold, were ploughed up, the 

 furrows not requiring it. They were alfo harrowed, and the 

 field copioufly manured with lime compnfl: ; harrowed in, and 

 broke into nine-feet ridges, peifedly ilrait, in order to in- 

 troduce Duckit's drill. It was fown' under furrow, broad- 

 caft, the lall of it not until the 13th of May, and was cut 

 down a reafonable crop the 4th ol September. I am now 

 thrafliing it, and a fample fliall be fent, as well as a return of 

 the eight acres if neceflary. 



The field now lies in proper form, well manured, with the 

 advantage of a fair crop from heavy tenacious ground, with- 

 out lofing a feafon, and in a year by no means favourable. 



I am well aware there are many (liallow foils, where it may 

 be hazardous to remove the enriched furface, and trufl perhaps 

 one half of your land for a ciop that had never before been 

 expoled to the atmofphere ; but where the foil is fufficiently 

 deep, or you have good under-flrata, and there is manure at 

 band to corred what is four from want of expofure and lillage, 

 it is evident from this expermient that no rifk is run. 



To avoid the expence of a fallow, and to lay out ground in 

 flrait and even ridges, even where drill hufbandry is not 

 J)ra6^ifed, fliould be objei^s to every rational farmer. But 

 where the new (y ftem is intended to be adopted, it becomes 

 indifpenfabiy neceflary. In laying down lawns, parks, &c. 

 where furrows are an eyefore, or places inacct-flible to wheel 

 carriages from their declivity, and from which earth is to be 

 removed, it w ill be found equally ufeful. 



Should the fociety confider the inventor, David Charles, 

 worthy of any renumeration, honorary or olherwife, it will be 

 gratefully acknowledged by 



Your obedient Servant, 

 Wcjimead, Jan. 1, 1803. JOSEPH HARDY. 



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