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404] to intervene, with a view to deprive the weeds of their vegetating power.

Among the most valuable implements that have, within a few years, been constructed and adopted in this country, is the Beverstone Plough, designed, or at least improved, by the ingenious Mr., of Beverstone, in the county of Gloucester. The following cut and description will afford a distinct idea of its mechanism:



This excellent machine, which considerably varies from the Rotherbam, and other valuable ploughs, gained the prize at the ploughing-match in 1798, held near Pipers-Inn, Somersetshire, under the patronage of the Bath and West of England Society. It may be easily worked by a pair of oxen, without a driver; and, on account of its simplicity, we believe that the representation, above given, will be sufficient to guide a skilful carpenter, in the construction of a similar implement.

The Double, or Two-furrow Swing and Wheel-Plough, demands the attention of every enlightened agriculturist: we have therefore subjoined the following representation, copied from the 2d vol. of Commu-