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* that branch of it which coniifts merely in 

 ** (owing corn, &c. in equally diftant rows ; 

 * having applied thefe methods of culture, 

 " not only to corn, but to moft of the legu- 

 *< minous plants ; and having extended my 

 experiments very confiderably ; I may ven- 

 * ture, at laft, to recommend zealoufly a 

 " practice I have always found both enter- 

 " taining and profitable. 



" It is true, many writers on this fubjet 

 have given a much more flattering account 

 " of drilling than I am able to give. If their 

 " account be not exaggerated, either they 

 * have been more fortunate than I, in culti- 

 * vating a foil more peculiarly adapted to 

 " horfe-hoeing; or they have conducted their 

 " experiments with fuperior (kill. However, 

 " I have never been able, from a fingle crop, 

 *' in any one year, of any kind of vegetable, 

 ' to obtain a larger produce from the fame ex- 

 ' tent of equally good ground, where the 

 * lai>d was laid out in beds [lands or ridges] 

 " drilled and horfe-hoed, than where the 

 * corn was fown at random. Vegetables of 

 the pulfe kind are the moft improved by 

 ' the horfe-hoe ; poffibly as great a crop of 

 " peafe, bean?, or turnips, may be obtained 

 ' by it. But wheat, barley, or oats, have 

 " ufually yielded me a third more from ran- 

 " dom fowing; that is, if three quaners of 

 " wheat may be produced from one acre in 

 the Common Hu(bandry, the fame ground 



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