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has made ready about half or three quarters of an 

 acre, I fet from four to fix horfes, according to the 

 diftance I have, to draw out the manure ; appointing 

 as many men, generally four, to the dunghill, as will 

 be fufficient to keep the horfes employed. I next ap- 

 point two men to throw the manure off the carts into 

 fix drills, each taking three, and fix men to fpread it 

 carefully after them, with the fame number of women 

 or girls to drop the fets in the drills, at five or fix 

 inches diftance ; and as the drilling plough gets much 

 fader on than the planting, it turns behind them at 

 proper intervals of time, and, with the wings or mold- 

 boards extended, runs a furrow exaftly in the middle 

 between two drills and covers them, and, when it 

 comes up with the planters, leaves them, and prepares 

 more drills ; having no other alteration to make, but 

 changing the double trees 5 as it requires one of fix 

 feet for covering, to allow the horfes to walk on the 

 fp ace between the drills, that they may not tread on 

 the fets, as would be the cafe with a common tree. By 

 this mode one pair of horfes is able to drill and cover 

 between two and three acres in a day j to employ 

 twelve men, fix horfes and drivers, and fix women ; 

 the dung is not expofed to the fun and air, to exhauft 

 its falts, and the land is left in a drilled ftate again, 

 which prevents it from being injured by rain. If the 

 weather is dry, and the foil loofe, at the time of plant- 

 ing, I pafs a roller up every two drills, which 'prefles 



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