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re6lion ; that the horses are nearer their 
work than in your ploughs, which ope- 
rates in its movement as a diminution of 
ppwer ; that its furrows are of an equal size, 
a circumstance and effe61 which are not so 
common with your double ploughs ; that 
two Norfolk horses, yoked double in a Nor- 
folk plough, with one ploughman, shall per- 
form more than half the quantity of good 
ploughing, upon any soril , in less than half 
the time that one of your Lordship’s double 
ploughs, employed with double tlie power, 
on any given quantity of land. 
^ The double ])loughs are said to carry fur- 
rows of nine inches and a quarter in the 
clear. We well kno\v, that for the sake of 
apparently doing a great deal of work in a 
short time, a ploughman may carry furrows 
of near eleven inches, and even a foot, upon 
some soils, without detedlion or even obser- 
vation from any one except a pracfical hus- 
bandman. 
And although the challenge your Lordship 
mentions was not proceeded upon at Windsor, 
