122 Ohfervations on the Drilling of Wheat. 



The advantages of this method is found by the experience 

 of many farmers to be, ift. It takes fomewbat tefs feed — 2d, 

 The feed is mUiCh .better cgvergd^g'd, Tlie ridgespn each 

 fide mouldering gradually on the green grain, prevents it from 

 freezing out, or being winter killed— 4th, It is llieltered from 

 the bleak fpring winds — 5th, It drains off the wet- — 6th, It 

 better flands the drought, the roots being well covered. 



"Where the land i§ ricjily rnanured, perhaps this nietbodl 

 may not be fo neceffary ; and if the fallov/ is covered with large 

 flones, or flumps of trees, it will be impradicable ; but on land 

 confiderably exhaufted, our farmers have experienced great 

 advantage ; I reckon it yields /about at tliir^ rnbre— my neigh- 

 bour, a judicious' farmer, thinks it yields him double the old 

 method. When I firft praftifed this way, it was on a field that 

 the year before was in fummer grain ; one part of it gave a 

 much better crop than the reft ; without direclions, the teams- 

 man fowed this part by hand ; moft certainly the crop proved 

 to be the worft part of the field, which many of the neighbours 

 viewed, and next year began, and in general have followed this 

 praftice. Our carpenters deliver this drill compleat for eight 

 dollars. 



, New-York^ Feb. 28, 1792, 



[END OF PART I.] 



