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all. The drilled corn ftood better, fearcely any of it 
was lodged, and being free from grafs and weeds, 
was all faved without the leaft injury, at half the 
extra expence of the broad-caft; the produce of 
grain from ten to fifteen bufhels per acre more, and 
a fhilling per bufhel better, and this notwithftanding 
the whole of the broad-caft crop had the advantage 
of being the firft fown; a circumftance which, that 
feafon, was particularly remarked by the neighbour- 
ing farmers to have been univerfally favourable to 
thecrop; the early fown barley having every where 
fucceeded better than the late fown. 
In O&tober following I tilled a field of ten acres 
with wheat; the management of this field, with re- 
fpeé to tilling, manuring, &c. in every refpeé fimi- 
lar, except that one half was drilled with half the 
quantity of feed at nine-inch intervals, and that the 
other half was fown broad-caft. But as fome doubts 
were advanced refpetting the value of the land on 
different parts of the field, two twelve-furrow ridges, 
by way of proof, were gathered through the middle 
of the part intended to be drilled, and the drilling 
was begun on each fide of thofe ridges. The ridges 
were ploughed, fown, and managed according to the 
common hufbandry of the country, by the perfon 
before-mentioned, and every attention paid to weed- 
ing them in the fpring; the drilled crop was fcarified 
atid horfe-hoed once. At harveft the two ridges 
were cut firft, and immediately after a breadth of the 
broad- 
