228 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



'< maped as to pafs eafily between two rows 

 " of corn. It is about four feet and a half 

 " long, and fixteen inches wide, and the tines 

 " are made ftrong and eight or nine inches in 

 " length, with a couple of handles for the 

 " ploughman to guide it. It is a very ufeful 

 " mftrument to break down and crumble the 

 " lumps, and to drag out and clean away the 

 *' weeds, and may eafily be drawn with one 

 " horfe. It alfo well prepares the land in the 

 " intervals to receive a crop of turnips, cab- 

 " bages, or any thing elfe you may think 

 " proper to plant, before you have got the 

 " crop off the ground. This is not very often 

 " pradtifed, but ibmetimes may with good 

 44 fuccefs. 



" The fourth and laft inftrument, that is 

 <* neceflary to this practice, is the drill ; with 

 " which I fow in rows the feeds of whatever 

 " crops I have to plant ; this requires no more 

 ** fkill, ingenuity, or ftrength, than to drive a 

 " very light wheelbarrow along the furrows 

 " the plough with the double mould-boar,d has 

 " made. The only care it reqnites is, before 

 " you begin, to fet it to the iize of the feed 

 " you have to fow, and to lupply it with 

 " more feed as occaiion may require : which 

 " may be four, fix, or eight times in fowing 

 " an acre,- juft as you chufe. 



" This is the whole apparatus that is necef- 

 " fary in this method of practice ; the expence 

 " of which cannot exceed fifty millings or 



" three 



