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PLOUGHING. 
rye ; this being eaten early in spring by sheep, the 
land has three more ploughings for turnips. 
Beans and pease and vetches are generally set or 
sown upon one ploughing of stubble or clover sward. 
Barley after turnips should be upon two or more 
ploughings ; as no land unless such as is very light and 
sandy will work fine and well upon one ploughing after 
having been trod by sheep and cattle. 
In general all tillage land will require as many har- 
rowings as ploughings, unless such as is sown under 
furrow, or by a drill machine, or set by hand. The 
harrowings should certainly be given when the land is 
in a tolerably dry state. 
PLOUGHING, FURTHER REMARKS ON. 
Ploughing, as remarked under the article Imple¬ 
ments, is generally performed upon the light or gra¬ 
velly soils, by three horses and a driver, but no holder, 
with a plough guided by wheels, and which will easily 
plough an acre in seven or eight hours, or by a two 
furrow plough drawn by five horses, who will plough 
two acres in the same time. This plough may be ma¬ 
naged by one man, but a boy to drive is sometimes 
allowed. 
Mr. Knight, upon the light sandy loam of Wolver- 
ley, has adopted the system of two horses drawing 
abreast, and guided by a man at the plough tail by 
small in traces: these two horses plough an acre in 
the same time as the one furrow plough above named 
with three horses. The ploughs they use are nearly 
the same with the Worcestershire plough, No. 1, but 
refined 
