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double the work in a given time. This pal- 
pable circumstance of advantage, amongst 
men who had no other comparative means 
of gaining information, was enough to in- 
duce them to adopt the double-furrow 
ploughs with great eagerness, and to con- 
tinue the use of them until some fortunate 
coincidence of events shall produce a further 
experiment of the advantage of abandoning 
those for others still more beneficial. 
We are extremely surprized to find the 
following statement in your Lordship^s ac- 
count of your favourite plough. ‘ An econo- 
mical and spirited system of farming labour 
already prevails in some districts ; in none 
more eminently, with respebf to ploughing, 
than in Essex ; on both banks of the Tweed ; 
in Yorkshire, Sullblk, and Norfolk. Here 
it would be no obje6f to invade the system 
already established, for innovation is not pa- 
latable to fai rners ; nor should the first deep 
ploughing in Kent give way to any novel 
system, Tin re can be no better husbandry.^ 
Now, my Lord, if the husbandry of the 
