Scotland , who published proper rules for constructing them.His merits becoming soon known to John Renton, Esq. ofLammerton, who at that period was a most zealous promoterof agricultural improvements, that gentleman established MrSmall at Blackadder-Mount in Berwickshire, where he residedmany years, and carried on the manufacture of ploughs, har-rows, carts, waggons, and other useful implements ot hus-bandry, to a considerable extent; his ploughs especially^, be-ing much admired, were sought after, not only throughoutthe greater part of Scotland , but also in several parts of Eng-land. Indeed, the construction of Small’s plough is admiredand approved of to the present day ; and if well made, is su-perior, for ploughing every variety of soil, not only to anyplough that has hitherto appeared in Scotland , but perhapsin any other couutry, for it tills the ground in the best man-ner, and with so little friction, that only two horses are suffi-cient to draw it, both plough and horses being directed byone man.
The farmers of Scotland , are not partial to wheel-ploughs.The observations made by Small on this subject, in his Trea-tise on Ploughs, p. 176, seem to be decisive. He concludes hisremarks on that head with observing, that the advantages ofwheel-ploughs are but inconsiderable, and by no means equi-valent to the great additional expence, to the risk of goingout of repair, and the trouble of keeping them in order. Headds, that they possess no advantage over the swing plough,as they cannot be used except in well-dressed ground, freefrom stones ; and in such soils there is no use for them, forthe principles upon which a plough operates, are so certain,that a swing plough may be made, which will perform its workwith ordinary attention on the part of the ploughman.
2. Harrows.
Implements of this description are necessary in the prac-tice of husbandry, both for pulverizing or preparing theground for the reception of the seed, and for covering it when