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Sir T. Beevor's drill roller is, I think, an implc- 

 ment well adapted for wheat which requires a clofc 

 bottom, but I fliould prefer drilling for barley, as it 

 delights in a warm loofe fituation; but as the well 

 looking of Sir T. Beevor's work depends in a great 

 meafurc on the corn being well fown, and as through 

 moll countries, I have obferved that bufinefs is 

 generally badly done, I am induced to fend you 

 what I think the grcatefl improvement the old 

 hufbandry has met with in this century ^ (I have 

 not feen it pradifed elfewhere, nor any account of it 

 in the agricultural publications) that is to fay, the 

 new method of /owing hy hand\ the old method 

 was to fow in warps, viz. 20 furrows at the time, 

 proceeding down the right hand fide of the warp, 

 and returning on the left fide, calling the feed with 

 the right hand acrofs the warp, the whole was finifhed, 

 and probably, as either going or returning the feedf- 

 man was obliged to call againfl the wind, the work 

 was badly done. By the new method, the feedfman 

 always calls before the wind, takes a lefs quantity in 

 his hand, and advances {^vt'Ci furrows each time, 

 which is about three times over a warp, exadlly as 

 tiles are pl;jcedi if in the beginning he proceeds to 

 fow with his right hand, at the end he advances feven 

 furrows and returns fowing with his left hand, pro- 

 feeding alternately with his right and left hands, till 



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