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juft where the plough nuift come, and is prefendy ploughed in. By 
this way of fovcing they think they fave much feed and other 
charge, a dexterous Boy being as capable of fowing this way out 
of his hat^ as the nioft judicious Seeds-man, But of this way 
more hereafter, when I come into Buckjnghajn-JlAre. 
'jG. Thus having run through, thcTillage^ Manures^ Quantities 
and choice of Seed^ and the feveralways of fowing the Soils of 
this County^ I proceed to the Inftruments ufed in their tillage : A- 
mongft w^hich, the Plough being the beft, becaufe the moftufeful 
Engine in the World, deferves the firft place ; of which there 
arc two forts ufed in Oxford -J/Are^ the Foot^ and Wheel-plough ; 
whereof the firft is ufed in deep and Clay Lands, being accor d- 
ingly fitted with a broad fin fliare, and the Horfes going always in 
a firing and keeping the furrow^ to avoid poching the Land ; and 
the fecond'm the lighter and ftony Land, the Horfes either going in 
a firings or two a breaft, according as thought moft fuitable to 
the tillage in hand : This Plough when ufed in ftony Land, is 
armed with a roundpointed ftiare, having alfo near the chep of the 
Plough a fmall fin to cut the roots of the grafs, for in this Land 
the broad fin jumps out of the ground. The Joot plough does beft 
at the henting, i. e. ending of a Land, it going clofe up to a hedge, 
and not being fubjed to over-throw ; whereas the wheel plough^ 
if care and discretion do 'not meet in the holder^ is apt to over- 
throw there, the Land being ridged ; but goes much morelight- 
fom and eafie for the Horfes than the foot plough doth, which is 
thefum, of the Conveniencies andlnconveniencies of both. 
77. After Ploughing and Sowings they cover their Corn with 
Harrorys^ whereof fome have 4, S, or 6 bulls, or /pars apiece, each 
of them armed with five tines^ and of a fquare form as at moft o- 
ther places. But 2it Whitfield^ near Sir Thomas Tippings^ I faw a 
great weighty triangular Harrow^ whofe tines ftood not in rows 
after the manner of others^ its ufe being in ground much fubjeft to 
Quitch-grafs^ whofe roots itfcems continually pafTing between the 
tines of other Harrorvs^ are not fo eafily dragged forth by them, as 
this, whofe /i/zey ftand not in rows^ and is drawn with one of the 
Angles fore-moft, after the manner of a IFedge : Yet 1 could not 
find it anfwer'd expeftation fo well as to obtain in other places, 
moft thinking the ^re^/ fquare Bull harrow^ drawn by the fecond 
« On light Land fome count the treading of double Cattle advantagioasto it, 
hull 
