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6ogd. ‘The crop is too thin fown, and Jand Soft in 
‘the intervals. 
This objeétion has fome force on certain = foils, if 
© the fearificator and hoe be not ufed,| but is en- 
tirely done away iftit be well managed. 
4th, Harvefting later than broad-caft crops. 
This might be brought in argument againft a dung- 
hilly‘though few modern’ farmers owill reje& its 
afé'on that account. | 
‘sth. ‘Clover, not fucceeding witly it. 
‘My crops of clover {peak powerfully in favour of 
it: 1] have never‘had better m the common way. 
6th: Oats, producing ftraw rank and coarfe, and 
‘not good food for cattle. 
If oxen are admitted as evidence, bam fure they 
-will:prove the ‘contrary ; mine have been alter- 
‘natély fed with drilled ftraw’ and broad-caft. for 
tionths together, and no difference was percep- 
tible in their thriving on one or the other, 
It appears to me, from the experience that I have 
had, that the firft and greateft objeétion to this fy 
tem is the difficulty of procuring a perfon who is 
acquainted with the ufe of the machine, and the 
after-management of the crop during its vegetating 
procefs.. I am perfuaded, if I had not gone through 
every part of the bufinefs myfelf, that my drilling 
would have beena work of a feafon only; by enter- 
ing myfelf into the minutiz of it, and by doing the 
whole-bufinefs, I found the difficulty of fowing foon 
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