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its handle, and a sheet-iron one has been carefully fitted in 

 its place, and is fixed with leaden rivets. 



The implements, &c, on the face shown are, in the middle, 

 a plough, and on either side of it a sheaf and a milking-pail. 

 Above are a hay- fork and hay-rake and the three-pronged 

 wooden fork, which was formerly also used in hay-making, 

 with something that may be a flail or a hay-knife, to fill up 



Farm-Jug of Staffordshire Ware 



the left-hand space. As the group near it, connected by a 

 ribbon, are all haying tools, it is probably the great broad- 

 bladed knife for cutting the hay out of the stack. Below the 

 plough are an axe and a mattock crossed. On a ribbon above 

 is the good old agricultural motto ' God speed the Plow,' and 

 below, the lines — 



He that by the Plow would thrive 

 Himself must either hold or Drive. 



