PLATE III.

Kentijh and Norfolk Ploughs*

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A reprefentation of the Norfolk Plough is given at fig . 1. The head and beam are thort, hutcarriage part or wheels ftand high; by which means the fore end of the beam is much railed, andthe horfes are more conveniently driven. It is ufually drawn by two horfes abreaft, theploughman guiding them by reins. It is an ufeful plough in fuch light foils as it is generally-employed upon.

At jF ig. 2. is feen the Turn-iurefi or Kenti/h Plough , a powerful implement in ftiff ftrong foils,but very heavy. It is ufed in Kent with four horfes abreaft, and anfwerswell among flints orrocks, and in dry foils, from its going deep and laying the furrow flice quite flat, without anyopening in the feam. It cofts, complete, 5/. 5 j-.

Mr. Boys defcribes it as confiding “ of a beam of oak ten feet long, five inches deep, and fourbroad; behind which is a foot, five inches by three and a half, and three feet and a half long, onthe top of which the handles are placed ; the foot is tenoned to the end of the beam, and mortifedat the bottom to the end of the chep. Through the beam, attwo feet five inches diftancefrom thefoot, is a {heath of oak feven inches wide and one and a half thick, which is mortifed into thechep in an oblique dire&ion, fo that the point of the {hare is twenty-two inches diftant fromthe beam. The chep to which the {hare is fixed is five feet long, four inches wide, and fiveinches deep. The {hare is of hammered iron, weighs about thirty-two pounds, is twentyinches long, and from four inches and a half to feven inches wide at the point.

“The upper end of the beam refts on a carriage with two wheels, three feet two inches high.On the axle-tree is a gallows, on which is a Aiding bolfter, to let up and down. Throughthe centre of the axle is a clafp-iron, to which is fixed a ftrong chain called a tow, that comes,over the beam, fo fixed, as by means of notches (or a pin called a check) to let the whole plough,out a greater length from the axle, thereby letting it down to a greater depth.”