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had produced a much larger crop of wheat, produced 
a much larger quantity of both ftraw and corn than 
the part of the field did on which the wheat had 
been fown by hand. The line of drilled part and 
broad-caft was as diftinétly to be feen by the fupe- 
riority of the crop of oats, as it was marked by that 
of the wheat the preceding fummer; a circumftance 
by no means to be accounted for but from the effects 
of the operations of fcarifying and horfe-hoeing on 
the foil. It may be faid, that a good fallow previous 
to fowing the crop may have the fame effect. I am 
inclined to doubt it; but if it fhould, it will not be 
fo cheap and concife a method, and a certain time 
muft be loft in the preparation, to fay nothing of the 
labour employed in it. 
I will now ftate the difadvantages of drill huf- 
bandry, which I have heard advanced by gentlemen 
who have unfuccefsfully attempted it, and add my 
own remarks on them. 
ift. The difficulty of finding a perfon acquainted 
-with the ufe of the machine. 
This, though no objection to the fyftem, will re-. 
main a difficulty before it becomes more general, 
but is a circumftance attending every new prattice. 
ad. The foil muft be very well prepared to admit, 
of it. 
Not at all finer than for good management in the 
broad.-caft. 
3d. The 
