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the ufual allowance, that is, nearly fix buftiels. All 

 broad caft ; except in one inftance, when Mr. Craw- 

 ford, of Crawford 's-burn, made ufe of the drill 

 plough ; with this machine he fowed three acres 

 with four bufliels of feed, and found the crop fuffi- 

 ciently thick, and the barley much better grain than 

 ufual ; he thinks it might be fown with even a fmaller 

 quantity, for he tried a number of drills with a lefs 

 proportion, and could not obferve any difference in the 

 produce. This machine fows five drills at nine inches 

 diftance, or three at eighteen ; a horfe, one man, and 

 a. boy, will fow three or four acres a day ; though the 

 mold falls in behind the hollow coulter, Mr. Crawford 

 always rolls the ground after fowing, which he thinks 

 an excellent practice, whatever may be the mode of 

 fowing. The drill plough requires ground very fine, 

 and free from rocks and ftones. An experiment made 

 by the Rev. Mr. Moore, of Clough, deferves to be 

 mentioned j being ftruck with the quantity of feed 

 ufually fown, particularly in the approaching famine 

 of the fpring of 1 800, he dibbled an acre of ground 

 with twenty-four quarts of barley, and although it 

 was fown late, and the dry weather which imme- 

 diately followed was very unfavourable, the produce 

 was nearly equal to that of the furrounding country ; 

 and, if to that was added the faving of more than five 

 bufhels of feed, the experiment upon the whole was in 

 favour of the dibbling. 



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