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drawn one at a time by a line or rule ; but, this 

 need not be the case ; for, a very cheap and 

 simple tool does the business with as much quick- 

 ness as sowing at random. 



162. Suppose there be a bed of onions to be 

 sown. I make my drills in this way. I have 

 what I call a Driller ; which is a rake six feet long 

 in the head. This head ib made of White Oak, 

 2 inches by 2 ; and has teeth in it at eight inches 

 asunder, each tooth being about six inches long, 

 and an inch in diameter at the head, and is pointed 

 a little at the end that meets the ground. This 

 gives nine teeth, there being four inches over at 

 each end of the head. In this head, there is 

 a handle fixed of about six feet long. When my 

 ground is prepared, raked nice and smooth, and 

 cleaned from stones and clods, I begin at the left 

 hand end of the bed, and draw across it nine rows 

 at once. I then proceed, taking care to keep 

 the left hand tooth of the Driller in the right hand 

 drill that has just been made ; so that now 1 make 

 but eight new drills, because (for a guide) the 

 left hand tooth goes this time in the diill, which 

 was before made by the right hand tooth. Thus, 

 at every draw, I make eight drills. And, in this 

 way apretty long bed is formed into nice, straight 

 drills in a very few minutes. The sowing, after 

 this, is done with (ruth, and the depth of the co- 

 vering must be alike for all the seeds. If it be 

 Parsnips or Carrots, which require a wider dis- 

 tance between the rows ; or, Cabbage plants, 

 which, as they are to stand only for a while, do 

 not require distances so wide : in these cases, 

 other Drillers may be made. And, what is the 

 expense ? There is scarcely an American farmer, 



