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" root : whilft in the other more ufual way, the corn falls to th^ 

 *' bottom of the furrow on the gravel, cla)', or fuch like hard ground, 

 "where it feldom thrives fo well as what happens to be in the 

 " midft. This way alfo exceeds the wxy oi fetting corn, where the 

 " pins thrufl: into the ground, harden and faften the mould, fo that 

 " unlefs the land be very light, it confines the roots to too narrow 

 " a place, which in this way is prevented ; as I have obferved in 

 '* garden beans, that thofe hoed in, proved better than thofe fet 

 <' with a flick. 



" By the ufe of this inflrument alfo may you cover your grain 

 ** or pulfe with any rich compoll: you fliall prepare for that pur- 

 " pofe, either with pigeon-dung dry or granulated, or any other 

 " faline or lixivial fubftance, made difperfeable, which may drop 

 ** after the corn, and prove an excellent improvement : for we find 

 *' experimentally, that pigeon's dung fown by the hand on wheat 

 <* or barley, mightily advantageth it by the common way of huf-« 

 *' bandry : much more then might we expedl this way, where the 

 " dung, or fuch like fubftance is all in the fame furrow with the 

 " corn J whereas in the other vulgar way, a great part thereof comes 

 *' not near it. 



" It may either be done by having another hopper on the fame 

 <* frame behind that for the corn, wherein the compoll may be 

 ** put, and made to drop fucceflively after the corn : or it may be 

 <* fown by another inftrument to follow the former, which is the 

 " better way, and may both difperfe the foil, and cover both foil 

 ** and feed. 



" The corn alfo thus fown in ranges, you may with much more 

 *'. conveniency go between, and either weed it or hoe it, and earth 

 *' it up as you think good, and at harveft it will eafily repay the 

 ** charges. 



" Alfo the fore- wheels being made to lock to and fro on either 

 *' fide, you may have an upright iron pin fixed to the middle of the 

 ** axis, extended to the top of the frame : and from thence a fmall 

 *' rod of ron to come to your hand, with a crooked neck )ufi: againfl; 

 *' the neck of the hopper; by means of which iron rod, you may 

 *• lock or turn the wheels either way, and guide your inflrument, 

 *' and reftify it, if it deviate out of its right courfe. 



" The hopper mufl be broad and fhallow, that the feed prefs 

 ** not much harder when it is full, than when it is near empty, 

 " left it fow not proportionably. 



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