a better opportunity of coming to a certainty on the subject; should you with for farther information, I fhall then be happy to communicate what may have occured.I apprehend this Plough can only answer in fuch foils where it is not likely to meet with any material obstruction; in mine I flatter myself I shall find much benefit result from its use. I am, SIR, Burwood Park, March 20, 1796. Mr. MORE. A SIR, Your very humble fervant, EDMUND BOEHM. GREEABLY to the wishes of the Committee of Agriculture, I am now to request you will lay before them the further trials I have made with, and obfervations on, Mr. Scott's Mole Plough. On the ift of this month, on light land, my drain fourteen inches deep, I worked the Plough, without difficulty, with two oxen and three horses; but, in the strong clays, found it work enough for four horfes and two oxen, although I reduced my depth two inches. The drains I have drawn on low wet lands and clay, run inftantly after the Plough on these lands I have generally drawn the drains about twenty feet asunder, and find them much firmer and dryer. I conceive that, except in very heavy land, four oxen would be fufficient, and fully equal to two oxen and three horses, as the former ftop, and confequently draw much better together. The Mole Plough, in my opinion, fully anfwers the intent in fuch lands as it can properly work in, my only objection being to the strength required to work it, which makes it impracticable where a large team is not kept. It may be worthy remark, that the last year's drains, which were in clay, are as entire, entire, and run as freely, as at the first moment they were made. I am, SIR, Your obedient humble fervant, Ottershaw Park, February, 12, 1797. Mr. MORE. Defcription of the Wood-Cut of Mr. ADAM SCOTT's Mole Plough. а. The handle, for only one is ufed, mortifed into the beam, at b. cc. The beam. d. The coulter, held faft, in the ufual manner, by wedges. e. b. The cone or mole, of caft iron, having an upright piece of bar iron, fastened to it, which, paffing through the beam at f, is tightened by wedges; and the pin (g), being put through one of the holes in the upright bar, ferves to regulate the depth of the cavity below the furface of the land. The copfe, by which the cattle draw. |