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finned plouglu, which has a moveable mould board 
fixed on a hook at the share, and by a pin at the 
broad end, which passes through the mouldboard 
and into the beam ; when they come to the end of 
the furrow, instead of making a land, they shift the 
mould board, which is done very quickly, and has 
the advantage of throwing the furrows all one way, 
Th^ usual course of ploughing, is to break up w’ith 
this plough ; then to cross plough with the large 
plough ; then to go over the ground with the first 
described plough, but with two mould boards, 
which leaves the land in ridges ; then to split the 
ridges with the same plough ; afterwards to lay the 
furrows one way, with the plough with the move- 
able mould board. When the side of a hill is 
ploughed, the furrows are not straight, but waved 
as the hill is, so as to prevent the water from running 
too rapidly and harming the furrows. The bar- | 
rows are commonly of wood, but as the ground is j 
thoroughly ploughed, and free from stone, they ; 
work very well. In the Lyonnais and many of the | 
southern parts of France, as well as in Piedmont, j 
oxen are generally used for the plough and other | 
draft. They all draw by the horns, and have only 
a very light yoke to keep up the pole of the waggon, 
for they use waggons for them instead of carts. . 
The draft oxen are in general smaller than our 
Connecticut cattle, and are for the most part creani 
coloured or red. It is very common too, to see ! 
cows worked in the same manner as the oxen, and I 
