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ward mode of management, long enough to eftablifh 
its reputation with the common labourer, ‘The crops 
produced by this mode were fine, and the grain good. 
It was my intention this feafon, for the fatisfaétion 
of the Society, to have made fome farther compara- 
tive trials on fpring corn; but having determined, for , 
the firft time, on drilling my clover between the 
' rows of corn, I was a little embarrafled on that ac- 
count, and my comparative crop was confined to a 
fingle field of very high poor ground, value ros. per 
acre, its expofure due north, and perfeétly open to 
the ftormy north-weftern gales, which are very vio- 
lent in North-Devon. This field had borne a crop 
of drilled wheat, about 16 bufhels per acre, the laft 
feafon, for which crop it had been prepared in the 
ufual manner by paring, burning, and a manuring of 
lime! Half this field was fown with barley, the other 
half, which was very declivous to the north, fown 
with oats; nearly halfthe barley ground was drilled, 
partly at g inches, partly at 12 inches diftance; the 
oats all fown broad-caft, except three-fourths of an 
acre, which was drilled with one bufhel and two 
pecks of white oats at one foot afunder. At harveft 
the drilled was evidently the cleaneft, heavieft, and 
beft crop; but a very heavy gale of wind arofe a few 
days before it was to be cut, which fhed a great 
quantity of the grain, and as the drilled corn was 
longer eared, and the ftraw longer, it fuffered more 
than the broad-caft, which was very fhort and fmal] 
eared. 
