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bfiSERVATIONSON THE 

 D R I L L I N G o Y W H E A T. 



Bt WALTER RUTHERFORD, Esquire. 



Gentlemen, 



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A S I confider Wheat as the firft ftaple of the trade and 

 wealth of the middle dates, I" beg leave to recommend a 

 method of promoting this article^ without adding to, but rather 

 diminifiiing the expence of culture. 



The drill hufbandry has .been long recommended and prac- 

 tifed in England, but in a manner fo complicated, machinery 

 fo expenfive, and fuccefs fo various, that it has never come in 

 general pra6lice there, nor attempted in that method in America; 

 but fome years ago a farmer in Somerfet county, in New- 

 Jerfey, firft introduced a feed-drill of his invention. Being a 

 feed-box over a cyhnder that turns with the wheels, with four 

 holes in the box, that anfwer notches floped in the cylinder, by 

 which the feed falls into drills at thirteen inches apart, wl:^h 

 machine is drawn by a pair of horfes, with a tongue to turn it ; 

 when turning, the wheel to be held faft, and bringing the wheel 

 to run in the outfide drill ; and afterwards drilling the head- 

 lands, the whole field will be drilled at thirteen inches apart, and 

 may put in about eight acres a day, being underftood to be 

 well harrowed before drilling. 



