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the fuperior goodnefs and value of drilled crops, 

 it ought to have no weight in comparing the two 

 modes of hufbandry. 



In the broadcaft method the land is often fown 

 in bad tilth, and always fcattered at random, fome- 

 times by very unfkilful hands. In drilling, the 

 land muft be in fine order; the feed is fet in 

 trenches drawn regularly, all of nearly an equal 

 depth, and that depth fuitcd to the nature of each 

 kind of feed. Thefe feeds are alfo diftributed at 

 proper diftances, and by being equally and fpee- 

 dily covered, are protected from vermin and other 

 injuries; fo that the practice of the garden is here 

 exactly introduced into the field. 



In the broadcaft method, the feed falls in fome 

 places too thick, in others too thin; and being 

 imperfectly covered, a part of it is devoured by 

 vermin which follow the fower; another part is 

 left expofed to . rain or froft, or to heats, which 

 greatly injure it. When harrowed in, a great 

 part of it (fmali feeds efpecially) is buried fo 

 deep, that if the foil be wet, it perifhes before it 

 can vegetate. 



Again; When thus fown, there is no meddling 

 with the crop afterwards, becaufe its growth is 



irregular. 



