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mises, one acre may be considered as a full average for a day’swork throughout the year.

§ 10. Expence of ploughing. —In a succeeding part of thisReport, (See Ch. XIV.) it will appear, that the actual ex-pence of one efficient farm draught, or of a ploughman anda pair of good horses, properly fed, with all their concomi-tants, cannot cost the farmer less than from L.100 to L.130per annum , or L.115 on the average. Deducting from theyear 52 Sundays, and allowing other 13 days to be lost onvarious accounts, and supposing a draught to be used thewhole year round in ploughing only, the expence of plough-ing one acre of land, averaging the different states of the soilwhen ploughed, and the different objects in view, on the dataalready endeavoured to be established, cannot be estimatedbelow eight shillings and sixpence, and in many cases the realexpence is above that sum.

§11. Comparison of Scotch and English ploughing —On afair and impartial consideration of the circumstances abovedetailed, respecting the improved Scotch method of plough-ing, and on comparing it with the four-horse, and still morewith the six-horse plough teams, which are used in many partsof England, the result is so strikingly in favour of the Scotchdraught, as forcibly to recommend the use of an implementso economical and efficient, where it has not hitherto beenadopted. The expence of ploughing land with a four-horseteam, having a ploughman and a driver, supposing wages andhorsc-kcep the same in both countries, cannot be less thanseventeen shillings, and with six horses not less than twenty-four shillings, which affords a striking proof of the expence atwhich corn crops are raised in England.

Impressed with a full sense of this enormous waste and ex-pence of cultivation, many ingenious Englishmen have devo-ted their talents to the invention of double, and even trebleploughs: Most unmanageable implements, even inefficient innumberless situations, and exceedingly cumbrous in all. The