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few and small ( I08 ). Drilling is greatly preferable to dib- 

 bling potatoes, as appeared from an experiment, expressly 

 made to ascertain the advantages of each mode of culture ( * 9 ). 



The drilling of carrots has not been found to answer in 

 Suffolk ; but it has succeeded in the experience of Mr But- 

 terworth and others, in Scotland, and of M. Chateauvieux, 

 in Switzerland, with very wide intervals. This useful plant, 

 can thus be cultivated with profit, on soils where otherwise 

 it would hardly be practicable ; the drills furnishing an 

 artificial depth of soil, in which this root can be raised. 

 Fourteen inches between the rows is recommended as the 

 proper distance ( II0 ). 



In regard to pease, whether sown with a mixture of beans, 

 or not, drilling is to be preferred to the broad-cast system, 

 though the hoeing is attended with difficulty, owing to the 

 plant falling so early down upon the surface ( IIX ). The rows 

 ought to be from 20 to 27 inches asunder, and the intervals 

 repeatedly hand-hoed. Any weeds that may grow among 

 the pease may be pulled up by hand. It has been found 

 that pease, properly drilled, and carefully hoed, were at har- 

 vest, nearly as clean as the beds of a garden, and the pro- 

 duce, both of grain and of haulm, quite satisfactory ; where- 

 as the head-lands, which had been sown broad-cast, had a 

 miserable crop of grain, thinly scattered among a multitude 

 of annual weeds, and scarcely worth reaping ( If *). 



As to tares, they are sometimes drilled, particularly when 

 sown in spring ( II3 ); but broad-cast is the more general 

 practice, when sown in autumn. When drilled, the rows 

 should be fifteen inches apart ; and in strong tenacious clays, 

 this crop, when repeatedly hand-hoed, is said, in dry sea- 

 sons, to be more profitable than beans ( II4 ). 



Drilling Culmiferous or Corn Crops ; with. Observations cm. the 

 Row Cultures/or Crops of Grain. 



The question, whether it is most expedient or profitable, 

 to raise cuimiferous crops, according to the broad-cast, or 

 drilled system, has agitated the agricultural world for a 

 number of years ; and as it is a point, respecting which there 

 still exists a great diversity of opinion, it may be proper here 

 to detail the arguments on both sides, that the reader may 

 be enabled to form a decided opinion, which ought general- 

 ly to be preferred ; and in what particular cases, either the 

 row, or the broad-cast system of culture, ought to be adopt- 

 ed. 



