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is carried in both wago:ons and carts, and three or four horses are 
used according to circumstances as above. One horse is attached 
to eacli harrow : two or three harrows are kept together by a 
rider, or overlay, and the horses draw abreast. The number to 
scarifiers, drags, «Scc., varies from three to six, according to the 
weight of the implement and nature of the work. 
Implements. 
Ploughs. — The ploughs chiefly used in this district are the old 
Berkshire, or Tasker's two-wheel plough, Tasker's one-wheel, 
or D. P. plough, and the common one-wheel, which has been 
greatly improved by Reeves of Bratton, and which in some parts 
of the county is much used. A double furrow-plough is used on 
some farms in stirring or cross-ploughing fallows for turnips or 
barley. There are many others, but they are not in general use. 
Drills. — The Suffolk drill is the principal drill used for corn 
and turnips : there are others used, but mostly of old construction. 
There are several men from Suffolk living in different parts of 
the county, who keep from five to ten drills each, and let them 
on hire at so much per acre. The usual price is \s. 3c?. per acre 
for corn, and 2s. for turnips, with manure. Many farmers keep 
drills themselves, but many even of the lar<jer farmers prefer 
hiring. Broadcast Machines for corn and seeds are likewise used. 
Scarifiers are but little used on the heavy lands, the preference 
being given to ploughing ; but on light soils Finlayson's harrow, 
Carson's scarifier, and the common nine-share, are much used. 
The common drags and harrows are in general use, but lately 
iron harrows with curved tines have been introduced, and are 
found more efficient in working the heavy land. Crosskill's clod- 
crusher has been lately introduced on a few farms, and appears 
to be a useful (though an expensive) implement. Land-Pressers 
are in general use, as well as rollers, both of iron and wood. 
Horse-hoes are not in general use ; where they have been intro- 
duced, the preference is given to a set of hoes fixed in a beam, 
and attached to the wheels and frame of the Suffolk drill, by 
which the whole breadth of the drill is hoed at once. The hoes 
are arranged according to the number and width of the drills. 
Waggons only are used for carrying hay and corn, but carts and 
waggons are used for carrying manure, ^fhe carts are made 
deep in the bed and strong, and are well constructed for carrying 
the heavy loads which are often placed on them. Gardener's 
turnip-cutter has decidedly the preference for beasts and sheep ; 
but Moody's crusher is sometimes used when Swedes are given 
mixed with chaff. Chaff-cutters of various kinds are now in use : 
Ransom's one-knife, Passmore's, and a variety of others, too 
numerous to mention, worked both by horse and manual labour. 
Most of the farmers have a thrashing-machine worked by horse- 
