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preventing their use, and some modern commentators go so far 
as to say that many of the existing ones are either the original 
importations, or true copies of them. Anyway, very little can 
be said in favour of those now in use, except that they are light, 
and are passable in a Devonshire lane, which would certainly 
not be the case with the heavier and broader ones more commonly 
used elsewhere. The smallness of their wheels and narrowness 
of their tyres must add much to their friction, and certainly 
must badly cut up the public and other roads. Carts are also 
of comparatively modern introduction. The genial father of 
one of the farm competitors can recollect unloading manure 
from wooden boxes or crates in which it had 
been carried up on a pack-horse's back. 
But the most useful implement now general 
throughout the two counties, and which might 
with advantage be more used elsewhere, is the 
Balance and Turnwrest Two-Furrow Plough, of 
which figs. 1 and 2 are examples. 
These ploughs were introduced some fifteen 
years ago by Messrs. Davey, Sleep, & Co., and 
immediately came into 
general favour. Three 
horses were seen working 
abreast in them, driven 
by one man, and appeared 
to accomplish their work 
with ease and rapidity. 
A 6^-acre field was 
pointed out as having been ploughed over 7 to 8 inches deep 
with one of these ploughs by three horses and a man in 
Kg. 2. 
three days, and such a rate of work was mentioned as frequent 
in the county. Being turnwrests, their furrow slices are all 
turned one way, and no furrows are left. On hilly and siding 
ground the ploughs, as indeed do most other implements in 
