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fitted for a weak stomach than boiled. Strong and full-grown animal 

 food should be boiled, and the young and tender roasted. 



DRILLING-. A modern mode of putting seed into the ground by 

 a machine called a drilling machine, which makes channels in the 

 ground, and lets the seed into them, so that it comes up in rows at 

 regular distances from each other. The implement is also called the 

 drill, and although a comparatively modern invention, is so con- 

 structed, as to be used for nearly all the seeds cultivated in the garden 

 or the field. The advantages of drilling over the common method of 

 planting, are, the business is performed more expeditiously, the seeds 

 are more evenly distributed, and they are covered at the depth most 

 suitable for their vegetation. The drill is used in some parts of 



HORSE -DRILL. 



England extensively for sowing wheat, and on the Holkham farm in 

 Norfolk, belonging to the Earl of Leicester, four hundred acres in a 

 season are put in by this implement. Where the drill is used, the 

 soil must be fine, free from stones or other obstructions, and then 

 drill-sowing is performed with the greatest accuracy and benefit. 

 The Norfolk drill sows from twelve to sixteen rows of wheat at a 

 time, and at a distance of eight inches. With the best drills now to 

 be had in our own country, a man with two horses can sow a dozen 

 acres of wheat in a day, and with one horse can plant twenty acres 

 of corn in a day. 



DRINK. A part of our ordinary food, in a liquid form, serving 

 to dilute and moisten the dry meat. Although the proportion of 



