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A Walk from London to John O’Groat’s

CHAPTER II
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The oats, beans, and roots showed equally well.
The irrigation and deep tillage systems were going on simultaneously in the same field, affording me a good opportunity of seeing the operation of both.

Two men were plying the hose upon a portion of the field which had already been mowed three times.

Two teams were at work turning up the other, which had already been cropped once or twice.

One of two horses went first, and, with a common English plough, turned an ordinary furrow.

Then the other followed, of twice the force of the first, in the same furrow, with a subsoil plough held to the work beam-deep.


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