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Article XLV. 



An Account of a new Drill- Machine, invented by a 



Somcrfetfhire Farmer, and of a Crop /own by it. 



[In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, Near Mells> Somerfet, 'March 31, 1788. 



IT is with pleafure I comply with your requeft, in 

 giving you fome account of the fuccefs of my 

 endeavours to complete a Drilling-Machine, which 

 may unite the feveral obje&s of fimplicity, general 

 ufefulnefs, and cheapnefs. After confiderable pains, 

 I am of opinion, that I have fucceeded fo far as to 

 infure general fatisfaction. And my own fuccefs in 

 the ufe of it, among my neighbours as well as on 

 my own farm, confirms me very fully in the prefe- 

 rence of the drill husbandry before the broadcaft, in 

 all crops where the hoe is ufually introduced. 



In the conftru&ion of this machine, the peculi- 

 arities of which are entirely of my own invention, I 

 have had regard to equal convenience for fowing 

 all forts of grain, and on foils and furfaces heretofore 

 confidered as the mod unfavourable' to drilling, I 

 am about to procure a patent for the exclufive right 

 of making this machine for fale ; for which reafon, 

 fcs well as that I have not procured an engraving of 



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