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who would not make a set of Drillers, for six-inch, 

 eight inch, and twelve-inch distances, in a win- 

 ter's day ; and, consisting of a White Oak head 

 and handle, and of Locust teeth, every body 

 knows, that the tools might descend from father 

 to son, to the fourth or fifth generation. I hope, 

 therefore, that no one will, on the score of tedi- 

 ousness, object to the drilling of seeds in a garden. 



163. In the case of large pieces of ground, a 

 hand Driller is not sufficient. Yet, if the land 

 be ploughed, furrows might make the paths, the 

 harrow might smooth the ground, and the hand- 

 driller might be used for onions, or for any thing 

 else. However, what I have done for Kidney 

 Beans is this. I have a roller drawn by an ox, 

 or a horse. The roller is about eight inches in 

 diameter, and ten feet long. To that part of the 

 frame of the roller, which projects, or hangs over 

 beyond the roller behind, I attach, by means of 

 two pieces of wood and two pins, a bar ten teet 

 long. Into this bar I put ten teeth ; and near the 

 middle of the bar two handles. The roller being 

 put in motion breaks all the clods that the harrow- 

 has left, draws after it the ten teeth, and the ten 

 teeth make ten drills, as deep, or as shallow, as 

 the man chooses who follows the roller, holding 

 the two handles of the bar. The two pieces of 

 wood, which connect the bar with the hinder pro- 

 jecting part of the frame of the roller, work on 

 the pins, so as to let the bar up and down, as oc- 

 casion may require ; and, of course, while the 

 roller is turning, at the end, the bar, with the 

 teeth in it, is raised from the ground. 



164. Thus are ten drills made by an ox, in 

 about Jive minutes, which would perhaps require 



