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titions between the rows were but feven 

 inches each, and the hoe-plough came five 

 inches nearer to the middle rows of wheat 

 on each of them, than it did to the middle 

 rows of the beans ; which mews the impro- 

 priety of drilling three rows upon five-feet 

 ridges. Here Mr. Young adds, " that, on a 

 ' general furvey of experiments, carried much 

 * further than the foregoing, it appears that 

 " the face of the matter is not altered, but 

 * ftill bears the fame complexion, with re- 

 " gard to the different methods of lowing 

 " abovementioned. In a courie of no lefs 

 than nine experiments, the drilled beans 

 " have been found, after the payment of all 

 expences, to be fuperior to the broad-caft 

 ' by full two pounds and three (hillings per 

 acre, befides the difference of the land being 

 ' left in fo much better heart by the latter 

 " than the former. The fuperiority of the 

 " drill culture, as a preparation for wheat or 

 " barley, 1 do not think can be eftimated at 

 " lefs than fifteen millings per acre. Here is 

 " a fuperiority of near three pounds an acre, 

 in favour of drilling. Is it not evident, 

 that this, in a large piece of ground of clay 

 " or loam, will amount to fome hundreds of 

 " pounds per annum ?" 



Several other experiments are related by 

 Mr. Harrifon, alfo from Mr. Young, intended 

 to (hew, that in other crops, the Old Hufban- 

 dry is much fuperior to the New. It would 



D 3 be 



