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Melt twelve ounces of refin in an iron pot or 

 kettle; add three gallons of train oil, and three 

 or four rolls of brimftone; and when the refin 

 as much Spanifh brown, or red, or yellow oker, 

 and brimftone are melted and become thin, add 

 (or any other colour you want) fir ft ground fine 

 with fome of the oil, as will give the whole as 

 deep a fhade as you like. Then lay it on with a 

 brufh as hot and thin as you can. Some days after 

 the firft coat is dried, give it a fecond. It will pre- 

 ferve plank for ages, and keep the weather from 

 driving through brick-work. 



W. T. 



As a proof of the furprifing advantages that 

 attend the planting or fowing wheat in drills, and 

 the immenfe faving of feed by that method, I beg 

 leave to mention the following inftance, which 

 fell within my own obfervation ; — 



Some years fince, Mr. Wheatly, of Morden, 

 in the county of Cambridge, planted an acre of 

 land with wheat, leaving a foot fpace between 

 every two kernels : The whole acre took up half 

 a peck and one pint of feed, and the produce was 

 thirty-nine bulhels. 



Many 



