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nature, and within a few miles of each other, con- 
Mantly difputing on the propriety of one or the other 
mode of praétice; and this feems the more extraor- 
dinary to me, as my own experiments, which have 
been pretty extenfive, and I flatter myfelf made not 
only with a critical, but I will venture to aflert, im- 
partial attention, have uniformly, on every foil and 
fituation, for fix years fucceflively, been n decidedly: in 
favour of the new fy{tem. 
In the year 1790 I made my ff trial of drill 
hufbandry, by fowing a fmal] part of a field with 
WinTER’s Drill Machine, with barley at fix inches, 
the intervals of which were hand-hoed, The pro- 
duétivenefs of this piece of ground, under certain 
difadvantages of poverty of foil, unfavourable wea- 
ther, &c. was fufficient to convince me of the advan- 
tages of the fyftem under a better management, and 
excited my curiofity to make further comparifons 
between drilling and broad-caft fowing.—In order 
the better to anfwer my purpofe, I made a journey in 
the fummer of 1791, to fee different crops then 
growing which had been fown with drill machines, 
and to colleé& what intelligence I could on the fub- 
je&t; the refult of which was, my determining in fa- 
vour of Mr. Cooxke’s machine, and his fy{tem of 
management. JI therefore ordered a machine from 
Mr. Cooxe, which I received in the autumn follow- 
ing; but, owing to its being detained by unfavour- 
able winds on the fea, too late for my wheat tillage, 
that 
