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rents, and maintain their families,* without having 

 recourfe to the pariih; and I think the benefit muft 

 be obvious to every perfon. 



I am, &:c. 



Hethcl-Halh Norfolk, ' THO. BEEVOR. 



Jan. 29, 1785. 



Article XXX. 



References to the annexed Plate of a patent Drill' 

 Machine, invented by the Rev. James Cooke, of 

 Hcaton-Norris, near Manchejler •.,] and of a new- 

 conflruHed fimple Hand-Hoe. 



A, the upper part of the feed-box. 



B, the lower part of the fame box. 



C, a moveable partition, with a lever, by U'hich the 

 grain or feed is let fall at pleafure from the upper to the 

 lower part of the feed-box, from whence it is taken up by 

 cups or ladles applied to the cylinder D, and dropped into 

 the funnel E, and conveyed thereby into the furrow or 

 drill, made in the land by the coulter F, and covered by 

 the rake or harrow G. 



* Exclufive of the advantage farmers would reap from adopting a praftice fo 

 fully and declfively proved to be right, we cannot but ftrongly recommend this 

 confideration to their notice. In many parts of the Weft, where the poor are nu- 

 merous, and employment not plentiful, the fetting of wheat would.be of infinite 

 fervicc both to them :\nd the farmers. 



\ Now at No. 73j Oxfovd-ftreet, London. 



