432 OF DRILL-PLOUGHS. PartlV. 



•' and obferve whether it will hold out, or fuperabound at the end 

 " of one or two furrows, and accordingly proceed and rediify the 

 " feeder': or you may judge by your own reafon, whether i^t feed 

 '*' too fad: or too flov/. 



*' In cafe it feeds too faft, notwithftanding they be clofe placed 



■" together, you may make that wheel at the lower axis, wherein 



" the line moves, to be lefs than the upper ; then will the motion 



'" b'e flower: and thus may you make it move as flow as you will, 



" by augmenting the upper, and diminilhing the lower wheels 



" wherein the line is ; and make it move fafter by the contrary rule. 



** In cafe you drive apace, it feeds apace : in cafe you drive but 

 ** flow, it feeds but flowly .• here is no error. 



" When you come to any turning at the lands end, by lifting up 

 «' the hindermofl: part of the inilrument, that thofe wheels touch 

 *' not the ground, the feeding of the corn immediately ceafeth until 

 " you fet it down again. 



" Alfo all the corn you fow lies at a certain depth, none too 

 " deep, nor any too fliallow. 



" You may place a kind of harrow to follow ; but the befl; way 

 " is to have on each fide each furrow, a piece of wood, a little 

 " broad at the end, fet aflope to force the earth rounding on the 

 "corn. This may be well placed and fitted to the bottom of this 

 " inftrument, jufl: behind the fhare and feeding pipe. 



" By this method of fowing any fort of grain or pulfe, may be 

 <♦ faved the one half, and in fome places more, which by the other 

 ** way is either buried fo deep under clots, that it cannot come up, 

 " or elfe is fo fl:iallow, that the cold in the winter, or drought in 

 " the fummer killeth it, or elfe lies on the furface as a prey to the 

 " fowls of the air : much alfo thereof falls in clufters, twenty or 

 *' thirty grains where one or two might fuffice, which are common 

 ** inconveniencies, and ufually happening to the vulgar way of fow- 

 " ing corn : the greater half by far is loft, which in all probability 

 ♦' may be faved by the ufe of this very inftrument, which will 

 " doubly requite the extraordinary charge and trouble thereof: 

 " for here is no corn fowed under clots, but in rows, as the earth 

 " is ftirred and moved : it is all at one certain depth and at one ' 

 " certain diftance, and equally covered, below the injury of froft, 

 " and heat, and rapine of birds. Alfo by this way corn may be 

 *♦ fown in the very middle or convenient depth of the mould, that 

 -" it may have the ftrength of the land both below and above the 



" root: 



