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COMPARISON BETWEEN DRILL-HUSBANDRY 
AND BROAD-CAST. 
Ir is not for me to decide on a fubject, on which 
both the beft writers and the beft farmers in the 
kingdom, have fo long been divided in opinion; 
viz. ‘ Whether the drill-hufbandry is or is not fu- 
“ perior to the broad-caft?” They have both, un- 
doubtedly, their merits, or neither of them would 
have been fo long, and fo ably defended. Dif- 
ferent foils and fituations require different manage- | 
ment. Why may not fome be particularly adapted 
to one kind of hufbandry, and {ome to the other? 
What are the Wiltfhire drag ploughs, but imper- 
fect drill ploughs? And if the drag ploughs have 
been found, by thirty years experience on Wiltfhire 
downs, to have infured good {tout clean crops of 
wheat, furely the application of a drill-box to the 
very fame inflrument, fo as to depofit all the corn at 
one depth, muft be an improvement. So much for 
the down land. As for the fand land, the greateft 
enemies of drill-ploughs allow their ufe in land in 
which the feeds of all weeds being fure to vegetate, 
repeated hoeings are neceffary to prevent their 
choaking the corn. If there be any who doubt it, 
the /and veins of Wiltfhire will convince them; 
but they muft come foon. In feven years time, or 
lefs, if the land can be put into feveralty, they will, 
in all probability, fcarcely find a broad-caft Jand- 
Jarmer in the county. 
Perhaps 
