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intellit^ent, experimental farmers have declared, that one 

 furrow of the plough before winter is worth two or three 

 in the fpring. 



Refpefting the ufe of the machine, it is frequently re- 

 marked, by fome people not converfant with the properties 

 of matter and motion, that the foil will clofe after the coul- 

 ters, before the feed is admitted into the drills. Whereas 

 the very contrary is the cafe ; for the velocity of the coul- 

 tcrS; in paffing through the foil, is fo much greater than the 

 velocity with which the foil clofes up the drills by its own 

 fpontaneous gravity, that the incifions or drills will be 

 conftantlv open for three or four inches behind the coulters; 

 by which means it is morally impoffible (if the points of 

 the funnels ftand diredly behind the coulters) that the feed, 

 with the velocity it acquires in falling through the funnel?, 

 fhall not be admitted into the drills. 



Directions for Hoeingy &c. 



THIS hoe [fee the plate] is worked much in the fame 

 manner as a common Dutch hoe, or fcuffle, is worked in 

 gardens; the handle is elevated or deprefled, to fuit the fize 

 of the perfon that works it, by means of an iron wedge 

 being refpedively applied to the upper or under fide of the 

 handle ihat goes into the focket of the hoe. 



Wheat and rye cannot be hoed too early in the fpring, 

 provided the foil be dry enough to admit of being previ- 

 oufly rolled with a light roller ; nothing facilitates and ex- 

 pedites hoeing for the firft time fo much as rolling, by 

 pulverizing the foil and levelling the furface ; it ought ne- 

 verthelefs to be ornitted, rather than ufed, if the foil be not 

 quite dry, at leaft dry enough to quit the roller. 



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