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I have a fhort cylinder, or rather roller, made of 

 oak, about two feet long, and 14 or 15 inches dia- 

 meter. The length is divided into five equal parts, 

 and in the circumference of each is inferted a cir- 

 cular row of wooden tines or pegs, exactly fix 

 inches diftant from each other. They were cut out 

 of fpine oak an inch and a half fquare, bluntly 

 pointed at top, and projedt about three inches from 

 the furface of the roller. This inftrument, being 

 drawn along upon the middle of a ridge, indents the 

 fame in five lines, with holes exadtly fix inches 

 every way from each other. I began with planting 

 three rows out of the five in each ridge, that is to 

 fay, the middle and two outfide ones. This was 

 done by dropping two feeds in each hole. The 

 rows then are one foot afunder, and the feeds in 

 the rowsjuft fix inches. 



When one ridge was planted in this manner, I 

 thought the plants would be much too near, and 

 the intervals too narrow for horfe-hoeing. In the 

 remainder of the ridges, therefore, I only planted 

 two rows, next the outfide ones, leaving out the 

 middle and the two outfide ones, and in the rows 

 palTed every other hole, fo that the plants would 

 now (land a foot apart in the rows, and the intervals 

 were two feet wide, which was quite fulBcient for 

 borfe-hoeing. * 



