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ploughed an acre a day each without a driver, turning at land end, 

 with as much docility, as horses. His Lordship informed me, 

 that two moderate sized oxen, had some time before, drawn horns 

 from the corn field, (a distance of two miles) in a French skeleton 

 cart, as many sheaves of wheat, as weighed upwards of three ton, 

 and with no apparent extraordinary exertion. 



Drilling has been tried in this part of the county, particularly 

 by two farmers of Halse, and by Mr. Anderdon of Henlade. On 

 light poor soils, it has been found to answer, but in rich strong 

 loams, the corn has proved too rank. 



Mr. Anderdon has drilled all his corn for twenty years past. At 

 first he formed an experimental field of four acres, divided into se- 

 veral equal parts, where he tried drilling various crops, in compa- 

 rison with sowing them broadcast, and finding his drilled and 

 horsehoed crops of beans, wheat, peas, turnips, Sec. sufficiently en- 

 couraging to proceed to acres, he has continued the practice ever 

 since ; by which means he has certainly improved his land, and 

 eradicated weeds. 



He at first used Willey's drill plough for sowing double rows, 

 which is to be seen in the repository of the Society of Arts in 

 London. 



With this, he drilled two rows, about a foot asunder, on five 

 feet ridges, leaving intervals of four feet for horse hoeing. Since, 

 he has drilled single rows en ridges of three feet, by which means 

 he keeps his ground cleaner, and has a produce equally good with 

 the double rows. Of wheat, he generally reaps from fifteen to 

 twenty-four bushels per acre, which is about the average of the 

 wheat crops of his parish sown in the broadcafi way. 



In the year 1791 he reaped from one field twenty-nine bushels 

 per acre. The field was drilled in single rows, three feet asunder; 

 this may be called the Tullean method of drilling, and was prac- 

 tised many years ago by that enlightened agriculturist JethroTull. 

 The prevailing method of the present day, is to drill at intervals 

 of six, nine, or twelve inches. Though the practice of drilling 

 com has been highly extolled by some, and astonishing instances of 

 produce recorded, yet the writer of this report cannot find that it 

 gains ground in the county of Somerset, If the advantages refult- 



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