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I have planted In a very different manner, which 

 indeed, for the three laft years, has been my iifiial 

 cuftom. The land being well ploughed, I throw it 

 into fmall ridges with three bouts of the plough. 

 The diftance then from the middle of one furrow 

 to that of the next is about four feet fix inches. 

 The top of the ridge about a yard wide, and the 

 breadth oPthe furrow i8 inches. On the tops of 

 the ridges I plant three rows of corn, at the diftance 

 of ten inches from each other. This is performed 

 with a machine which makes the channels, drops 

 the corn, and completely covers it, at one operation. 

 This machine was made by the fame workman as 

 the former, and did not coft me more than about 

 30s. This inftrument performs extremely well, the 

 the corn is come up very regularly, the rows per- 

 fed, and the partitions clean. The firft machine 

 will fow fingle rows at any diftance, and any feed 

 from a horfe-bean to a turnip-feed. 



The other inftrument will fow one, two, three, 

 or five rows on each ridge, and any fort you pleafe. 

 This laft, however, is capable of innprovement, and 

 when made as complete as can be defired, I think 

 cannot exceed two guineas and a half. Thefe are 

 the fafls on which I ground my predidion; that 

 the time will come when the price of inftruments 



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