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Let it once be known how they can be raifed 

 with eafe, and in abundance, and the plan will be- 

 come practicable, which it is not at prefent. 



I am, Sir, your obliged friend, 



HENRIETTA RHODES. 



Article XLL 



The Bejcripion and UJe ef 'Mr. Winter's New -in- 

 vented Patent -Brill Machine. 



THIS Machine (fays Mr. W.) is univerfally acknow- 

 ledged to be fuperior to any hitherto invented ; it is 

 foftrong that nothing but the greateft violence can injure 

 it; and is conftru&ed on fuch plain mathematical princi- 

 ples, as to be worked by any perfon of the loweft capacity. 

 It depofits Grain, Pulfe, Turnip, Carrot, or any other Seed, 

 with the greateft accuracy, at any required depth in the 

 earth, from the furface to fix inches, at any required dif- 

 tance from 6, 7, 8, 9, to 40 inches between the rows, and 

 may be inftantaneoufly regulated fo as to increafe or de- 

 creafe the quantity fown, which is immediately covered. 

 One man, a boy, and two horfes, can drill ten acres of 

 light, and eight acres of {tiff land in one day j and from one 

 bufhel of feed wheat, and one bufhel and a half of barley^ 

 will produce a crop of from 6 to 20 bufhels per acre, (ac- 

 cording to the richnefs of the foil) more than whenfowed 

 by the common mode of huibandry. 



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