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when the feed is to be fown broaft-caft upon land that has beert 

 aclover-lay, &c. becaufe, if the feed be thrown upon the rough 

 furrows, a confiderable part of it will fall between them, and be 

 unavoidably loft, by lying too deep buried in the earth. This 

 mode anfwers extremely well, and partakes of both methods of cul- 

 ture; the feed, tho' fown brcadcaft, falling chiefly into the furrows. 



The machine is very ufeful for fowing in this manner; as the 

 feed is broad-caft, with an inconceivable regularity, at the time 

 the land is creafed. The advantages it likewife poflefles for 

 drilling all forts of grain or feed with this plough, are too evi- 

 dent to need mentioning. 



The machine, when conftrufled to be ufed with a double- 

 furrow plough, is made with two upper and two long fpouts for 

 drilling, two aprons for broad-cafting, and with a double hopper, 

 but in other refpec\s the fame as when intended for a finglc furrow 

 plough : it is ufed, in all cafes, with the greateft eafe imaginable. 



The interval between the points of the two fhares of a creafing 

 plough is ufually ten inches; the beam about nine feet long; 

 and the whole made of a light conftrudion. 



It is perhaps necefTary to remark, that with the 

 ufe of the machine, no new theoretical fyftern of 

 hufbandry is intended to be introduced; the ufe 

 of it is recommended, to aflift the farmer in the 

 practical part of his bufmefs only, and to enable 

 him to make his land produce the largcfl: crops 

 poilible, with the Icaft expcnce, whatever be the 

 mode of culture he chufes to follow. The ma- 

 chine is in every refpecl calculated for common 

 ufe; it is very durable, and cannot without great 

 violence be put out of order. The principles upon 

 which it acts are likewife extremely limple, and 

 no way depending upon nice mechanifm. 



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