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circular edge, like the paring of a nail, to catch the 
feed, which I think fowed about 4lb. an acre; 3Ib. 
equally diftributed would, I think, be quite enough. 
Had I had a lefs expert workman, my crop would 
have been better; he had acquired great credit by 
the ftraightnefs of his drills in my other crops, and 
could not facrifice it to my requeft in this: for I 
obferved to him, that when he held the coulter 
beam to either fide, to correct the boy’s errors in 
leading the horfe, the feeds hung in the pieces of 
canvafs, which join the pipes to the funnels; this 
left fome {paces unfown, and dropped too many 
feeds together in others, I had been advifed to 
bury the feed a month before I ufed it in damp 
fand; but not having covered it fuficiently, I found 
that in a few days it was all fprouting, which ob- 
liged me to haften my fowing it, and prevented my 
attention to fome remarks | intended to have made 
upon feed from different places. The planting 
fome to fill the vacancies occafioned by the feed 
fticking in the canvaffes, increafed the expence, 
placed to the account of hoeing, which the wet- 
nefs of the feafon rendered much greater than ufual, 
efpecially as I did it chiefly by women, who ran 
home for every fhower, and ftaid there if they faw a 
cloud; and I had near two acres fpoiled by not 
-being able to get them hoed intime; yet my prin- 
cipal crop of three acres on a good foil, but very 
near the chalk, has amply repaid me even by the 
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