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advantages that appear to me to attend the drill fyf- 
tem, and afterwards ftate the difadvantages I have 
heard it charged with by other Agriculturalifts. 
Advantages of Drill Hujfbandry. 
uit. Saving of half the feed-corn ufually fown. 
ad. A more regular and certain growth of that feed, 
from its being depofited at fuch depth in the foil 
that it immediately vegetates, and grows on more 
regularly together, and ripens at the fame time; 
a matter of great importance in a dry fpring fowing. 
3d. Affiting the growth of the crop by pulverizing 
and breaking the foil, and deftroying the infant 
weeds during the growth of the crop on it, by 
fearifying and horfe-hoeing. 
4th. Producing a larger and better crop; which is 
sth. Harvefted at alefs expence, and with a greater 
certainty, as it never abounds with grafs, weeds, 
&c. as broad-caft corn often does, and is never 
injured by the luxuriant growth of artificial graffes 
in wet fummers. 
6th. The fcarifying and horfe-hoeing leaves the foi} 
ina much more friable f{tate, and caufes it to work 
much freer, and prove more produétive for the 
future crops. 
The field fown half broad-caft, and half with the 
drill-machine, in the year 1791, was all fown the fol- 
lowing year with oats broad-caft; and the part on 
which the corn was drilled the preceding year, and 
had 
