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to Icani whei'e a steel yard of this kind is to be got, as it 

 would be an useful instrument to every farmer concerned in 

 the management of tillage land. I am also informed that a 

 machine for weighing live stock is very common in Scotland, 

 a description or drawing of which would prove acceptable to 

 many of your English readers. 



Permit me to mention an agricultural implement that is 

 getting fast into practice in this quarter, though invented se- 

 veral years ago. I mean a drill for sowing grain of every de- , 

 scription, and with any quantity you please. It may be used 

 by the most ignorant farmer, without danger of mistake ; be*, 

 ihg simple in its construction, and not easily put out of repair. 

 The inventor is Mr C. Perkins, cabinet-maker, Stockton up- 

 on Tees, who sells them at the low price of L. 6 : t6 : 6. An 

 additional box maj-^ be had to -this drill-machine, for sowing 

 along with the seed any kind of manure, such as ashes, rape 

 dust, pigeon dung, soot, &.c. and he also makes a set of hoes, 

 to fix on occasionally, to clean the different sorts of growing 

 grain. I am not personally acquainted with Mr Perkins, but 

 must do him the justice to say that, for real use, durability, 

 and cheapness, his drill is superior to any I have yet seen. I 

 have used it with success, on strong stoney ground, for seve- 

 ral years, and my expectations have not at any time been dis- 

 appointed. 



I have the pleasure to inform you, that the drill-lmsbandry 

 for grain, is becoming very general in the north of England, 

 particularly for wheat, beans, and pease. Y"ou will likely 

 say, why don't we include turnips as an article of drill-hus- 

 bandry, especially as they are taken as a first crop, upon 

 which the success of the after rotation must necessarily much 

 depend ? If you were to put this question, I could oaly an- 

 swer, that we are very well satisfied with the crops of tha 

 root which are got according to our present system ; and I 

 explained this at such length in my former communication, 

 that it is now unnecessary to return to the subject. 



\ am ycurs, &:c. 



A YORKSHIRE FARRIER. 



TO THE CONDUCTOR OF THE FARMER'S MAGAZINE. 



A Short Account of Br William Halyhurton, with some ex- 

 tracts from his Gcorgical Letters. 



SiF, 

 I beg leave to hand you fome extradls from the Georgics of 

 our countryman, Dr Halyhurton, a work probably unknown to 



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