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the intervals of drilled crops, which may either be 

 in the form of the Rotherham plough, or the one- 

 wheeled plough, either of which would anfwer the 

 purpofe as cffedually as any horfe-hoe whatever. 



Sect. III. Of the ^antity of Seed mcfl proper to 

 befowriy and on the regular diftribution df thefame^ 

 both as to diftance and depths 



The improvement made by the great faving of i 

 feed in modern praflice is very great. It is very - 

 certain from experiments, mod fatisfadorily authen- 

 ticated, that about one-third of the feed which was 

 formerly ufed, and indeed is ftill in mod places, is 

 fully fufficient. In general it produces a better crop . 

 than the whole quantity. In the old husbandry or 

 broad-caft method of fowing, it' is ufual to allow 

 from two to three bufhels of feed-wheat, as the 

 ieafon happens, to a ftatute acre -, but in drilling or 

 fetting, as pradifed in the Eaflern counties, it is 

 found that from three to five pecks is quite fuffi- 

 cient; fo that the difference between the two modes 

 of planting amounts, at leafl, to a faving of .one 

 bufhel and a half per acre. If then thefe new modes 

 of planting all forts of grain were equally adopted, 

 the faving, I conceive, would be an addition to the 

 year's produce, a tenth or twelfth of its whole 

 amount. The farmer, therefore, who in any one 

 year might plant one hundred acres of wheat in 



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