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operation, I shall venture to recommend drilling:, 

 lwt very different drilling' from that which lias ! 

 almost universally practised, viz. at distances of 18 

 inches or two feet. Objections to these wide in- 

 tervals are numerous. If kept clean hoed, the lu- 

 cerne licks up so much dirt, being beaten to the 

 earth by rain, &c. that it is unwholesome, and the 

 plants spread so into these spaces, that it must be 

 reaped, which is a great and useless expence. For 

 these reasons, as well as for superiority of crop, I re- 

 commend drilling at nine inches, which, in point 

 of produce, mowing, and freedom from dirt, is the 

 same as broad-cast; and another advantage is, that 

 it admits a scarifying once a year, which is much 

 more powerful and effective than any harrowing. 

 These facts are sufficient to weigh so much with 

 any reasonable man, as to induce him to adopt this 

 mode of drilling, as nearer to broad-Cast by far 

 than it is to drills at 18 or 24 inches, which open 

 to a quite different system, and a set of very differ- 

 ent evils. jXine inch rows might, practically, but 

 not literally, be considered as broad -cast, but with 

 the power of scarifying. 



5. In regard to seed for nine inch drilling, from 

 12 to 15lb, is to be recommended. 



6. The material point, of with or without corn, 

 remains to be spoken of; and here two considera- 

 tions present themselves. One is, the extreme lia- 

 bility of lucerne to be eaten by the fly, which does 

 great mischief to many crops, when very young, 

 and against which the growing corn is some pro- 

 tection. 



