i6 X)n Drilling of CovTif^c. Ffh. 



dent landed proprietor, and to the gratuitous practice of his o- 

 riginal medical profession among his friends, and the poor in his 

 neighbourhood^ has, of late, constructed covered sewers, inside 

 the wall (to prevent admixture of rain) of all his cattle farm 

 ofHces, v.'itli iron borders, to admit only the urine ; these all ter- 

 minate in one common reservoir, also under cover, in one of 

 the feeding bjres, constructed of free stone, and covered by u 

 Hailes ilag, which can be raised by a ring, when necessarv, to 

 clean the reservoir ; in the reservoir is a pump. Perfect com- 

 mand being thus obtained of the urine in a pure, unmixed 

 state, I hope the public shall in due time be favoured by him, 

 fhrough means of your publication, with his agricultural re- 

 sults from the various applications of that hitherto too much 

 neglected mean of improvement. He knows well how to con* 

 <iuct an agricultural experiment with accuracy ; and to draw 

 from his inferences, with equal sagacity. I am yours, <s:c. 

 Nov. i8. 1803. 



j4 Me?nuer of Rcldle stone Farmer'' s Club, 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER 3 MAGAZINE. 



On Drilling of CorUy \3c. 

 Sir, 



The drilling of corn is making rapid progress in Berwick- 

 shire, and on the other side of Tv/eed, and I hear no complaints 

 of want of success. I d^ hear many complaints against drill- 

 ing maciiines, from the difficulty of keeping them in a streight 

 direction, running the drills into each other in some places, and 

 leaving corresponding wide gaps in others ; and from the dif- 

 ficulty of keeping all the hoppers equally right, one or more 

 often choaking, and consequently bilking so much land of its 

 seed. My drilling is performed with perfect regularity and 

 precision, by a small double-mould board plough, going back- 

 wards and forwards, exactly as if drilling up the land for tur- 

 nips, only narrower, about 12 inches, and followed, or rather 

 preceded by a drill barrow, for which I have groved nuts of 

 different powers of delivery, for different grains. 



I say the barrow precedes the plough ; having drawn one hol- 

 low drill with the plough, the barrow enters where the plough 

 comes out, and goes on to the end of that drill, being lifted out 

 till the plough comes again to turn. The plough follows to 

 make the second hollow drill, in doing which, the seed in the 

 first is liglitly, but completely covered. When tlie field is drill- 

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