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by hand, every com is placed at the intended depth 

 and diftance, and not one in a thoufand mifcarnes. 

 This nnode of planting has now been in ufe fcveral 

 years in Norfolk, Suffolk, &c. and is annually ex- 

 tending itfelf, and doubtlefs will continue to do fo, 

 as in general it produces confiderably better crops 

 with fo great a faving in the feed. The only ob- 

 jedion which can be made to it is the expence of 

 fetting it, and the great number of hands it requires ; 

 more indeed than can at any rate in many places be 

 procured. In anfwer to the firft objedlion, it is faid 

 the price of planting by hand is now only about 5s. 

 an acre, which is very little in proportion to the in- 

 crcafe of produce, and the value of the feed faved. 

 The fecond objedion is entirely obviated by the 

 many inftruments lately invented for fowing the feed 

 very regularly at any required depth and diftance, 

 either in clofe drilling to be hand-hoed, or in open 

 drilling with intervals of a proper width for horfe- 

 hoeing. It is true thefe have not been fo generally 

 ufed as might have been reafonably expedled ; the 

 reafon of which, I am fully convinced, is the high 

 price the ingenious inventors have fet upon them. 

 Farmers in general are prejudiced againft the prac- 

 tice, and a priori cannot conceive the poffibility of 

 the new mode being any way equal, either in the 

 quantity of produce, or in point of profit, to the old 

 methods therefore will never run the rifque of lay- 

 ing 



