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land to a small depth ; and when the ground does not requireploughing, tliis machine will perform much more work, in agiven time, than could be accomplished by the plough. TheConstruction of this instrument ought to be such, as to con-tain a greater or less number of shares, so that they mayeasily be increased or diminished at pleasure. A machine ofthis kind acts bdth as a sort of plough and harrow at thesame time. It sometimes consists of a square wooden frame,into which the arms of the shares are fixed: this frame is at-tached to an axle furnished with a small wheel on each end,and on this axle is also fastened a pair of shafts, by which themachine is drawn. The other sort js composed of a trian-gular frame, into two sides of which are fastened the arms ofthe cutting shares; upon one of the angles is placed a bridleor muzzle, and to it the cattle are attached when working themachine. There is also a small wheel placed at each angleof this frame, which rolls on the land, and regulates the depththat the shares are intended to penetrate the ground. InEast Lothian , an instrument of this sort has lately been im-proved upon, which is known there under the name of Grub -ber.

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IMPLEMENTS FOK REAPING CORN.

In North Britain, the crop is generally cut down with thesickle or reaping hook; but in some districts, the scythe is oc-casionally made use of for that purpose. When the crop ad-mits of being cut down by the scythe, the expence is ratherless than if cut down by the sickle: it is, however, objected tothat instrument, that it does not lay the ears of the corn so re-