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planted clofer. This may be performed very con*, 

 veniently by a fmall hand-barrel drill, with which 

 a boy might plant fix acres a day ; or for want of 

 fuch an inftrument, the beans might be dropped 

 by women, boys, and girls, very expeditioufly ; as 

 the furrow would be an infallible guide, which 

 they could not miftake either in the rows or depth, 

 though they might fomewhat in the diftance of the 

 beans ; but as the furrows would remain open for 

 the prefent, every error would be liable to detedlion. 



The beans being planted, they may be very ex- 

 peditioufly covered by a pair of harrows being 

 lafhed to a couple of poles at a proper diftance to 

 work on the tops of the ridges, and drawn by a 

 pair of horfes ; one going in each furrow, two 

 ridges may be covered at a time, without the horfes 

 ftepping upon either. 



A drill, which makes the furrows, drops the 

 feed, and covers it at the fame time, conveys an 

 idea of much greater perfedlion than the method 

 here advifcd; but all things confidcred, I do not 

 know but in pradlice this may be the more eligible 

 method of the two, efpecially for beans and peafe; 

 and for fctting potatoes and cabbage plants, I think 

 it greatly preferable to all others. A furrow made 

 as above is vaftly preferable to any channel that 



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