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The cultivation of this plant has 

 been patented in the United States, 

 and ihe exclusive right given to a 

 Mr. Whitlow. But if it was culti- 

 vated in Europe, described in 

 scientific works, and appHed lo the 

 uses, which Mr. Whitlow proposes, 

 we do not perceive how he can 

 secure any exclusive right to its 

 culture or application. For a fur- 

 ther account of this plant and the 

 ;ise3 to which it js proposed to 

 apply it. See Massachusetts Agri- 

 cullural Repository^ vol. III. page 

 41 to 46. 



The species for the manufac- 

 ture of which Whitlow obtained a 

 patent, was, as he says, a new 

 one—which he called Urtica Whit- 

 low is. 



NEW HUSBANDRY, drill hus- 

 handrij^ or horse-hocing husbandrij. 

 It chiefly differs from the old hus- 

 bandry, in (his, that the soil is 

 tilled while the plants to be nour- 

 ished are growing m it. This 

 mode of culture was introduced 

 into England, by the ingenious Je- 

 thro Tuli, Esq. who wrote largely 

 and repeatedly on the subject. His 

 volume in folio, entitled, Kezo 

 horse-hoeing Husbandrij, was pub- 

 lished in the year 1731. An Es- 

 say on the same subject, in the 

 year 1733. A Supplement to the 

 Essay, in 1735. Addenda, and 

 Conclusion, in 1738, and 1739. 

 This gentleman e>ipended as it 

 were his whole life, in zealous and 

 benevolent exertions to convince 

 mankind of the great utility of his 

 new system, and directing them m 

 the practice of it. But he had the 

 moftitication of finding, that only 



here and there an enterprising 

 genius adopted it in practice. And 

 though more than sixty vearshave 

 now elapsed, since he made it 

 public, it is so far from having be- 

 come the general practice of far- 

 mers in that country, that there is 

 no reason to suppose that it ever 

 will : Although it has been recom- 

 mended, and further explained and 

 improved, by writers of note in 

 several nations. 



The author of this husbandry 

 meant to apply it chiefly to wheat, 

 as being the most important kind 

 of corn. The new husbandry dif- 

 fers from the old in the manner of 

 preparing the ground for a crop, 

 and in the manner of sowing the 

 seed. The ground is ploughed 

 into ridges, or beds, five or six 

 feet wide, and smoothed with har- 

 rows. Instead of sowing at ran- 

 dom with the hand, or broad-cast, 

 as it is called, the seed is dropped 

 by a drill, in straight lines, in little 

 furrows about two inches deep. 

 Either two or three such rows are 

 on Ciie bed, eight or nine inches 

 apart ; and the seeds are closely 

 covered in the furrows, by a small 

 harrow annexed to the drill. 



Mr. Tull invented a drill, or drill 

 plough, on a new construction. 

 With this machine one may sow 

 such a quantity of seeds, and as 

 many rows as may be thought ne- 

 cessary, lay the seeds at a conve- 

 nient depth, and cover them nice- 

 ly, only by drawing the machine 

 once along the ridges. 



Ar. soon as the plants are a few 

 inches high, the horse-hoe is intro- 

 duced, which differs but little from 



