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ART. II. 
The following Statement, founded on the prac- 
tice, and delivered on the veracity, of the 
Subscriber, with a view to the Premium or 
Bounty of this Society, was rewarded with a 
bounty of Ten Guineas in plate, as a token of 
the Society’s approbation. 
On DRILLING CORN. 
{By Mr. J OHN Exrer, of Pilton, Devon.) 
[’ feems extraordinary that a fubje& of fo much 
importance to the farmer, and the publick, 
as the comparative modes of fowing corn by the 
Old or New Hufbandry, fhould have been {fo little 
attended to by men of abilities, and by gentlemen of 
landed property, whofe intereft is fo much connetted 
with it, as to have remained fuch a number of years 
undetermined, fince it was firft introduced by Mr. 
TuLL; and that fome more fatisfactory and con- 
clufive experiments have not been made, and pub- 
lifhed to the world, to determine the matter with 
greater precifion. But fo unfettled is this important 
point at this day, that we find fome of the beft prac- 
titioners in agriculture, not only in different foils 
and diftriéts of country, but even on foils of the fame 
nature, 
