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broad-caft on each fide of the ridges was cut, and 
each part ftacked and kept feparate till it was dry 
enough to threfh, when it was carted into two dif- 
ferent barns, and immediately threfhed and win- 
nowed; tlie drilled crop yielded 29 bufhels 3 pecks, 
the broad-caft 20 bufhels 1 peck. In order to guard 
againft any fuppofition of fraud or impofition, the 
whole was winnowed and meafured by the fame man, 
the perfon who was fo very averfe to the drill fyftem, 
and conduéed the experiment in favour of the 
broad-caft againft me;, whofe honefty I could depend 
on, though fo much prejudiced againft the new 
mode of management. 
The advantages gained in the above experiments 
by the drill fyftem, gave me fuch a favourable idea 
of it, that I have ever fince followed it for the whole 
of my crops, and have repeatedly fown a part broad- 
caft by way of proof; and have never once, among 
all my trials, feen the broad-caft fowing equal the 
drilled part. In all the experiments alluded to, I 
fpeak of white-ftraw crops only, as 1 believe the 
greateft enemies to drilling admit its advantages in ~ 
all crops of pulfes; and I am certain it is equally 
fuperior to broad-caft for turnips. In the whole 
courfe of my attention to this fyftem, I have endea- 
voured to fteer as clear as poflible. from every pre- 
judice that theory might fuggeft, and confined myfelf 
only to thofe pofitive facts that arofe from abfolute 
practice. I fhall here then briefly enumerate the 
advantages 
