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SOWING. 



THE SPIRIT OF IMPROVEMENT 



may have led Ibme gentlemen, bur, I be- 

 lieve, not one yeoman or regular-bred farmer 

 to make experiments in the drill-hus- 

 bandry, at lead not of late years. In the 

 day of Mr, Tull fome trials were m.adeof it, 

 but the refults were not fufficiently favour- 

 able to eftablifh it as a practice. 



A fingularity in the method of fowing 

 BROADCAST is noticcable, though not pecu- 

 liarly excellent. The common way is to 

 fovv one land or one call at twice, fowing 

 half the feed one way, and (returning on 

 the fame land) half the other; the feedfman, 

 in this cafe, filling his hand at one ftep, and 

 making his caft at the next. But, in the me- 

 thod under notice, he cads ai every ft ep, and 

 fows the whole of the {^(^.d. at once going over. 

 This method is more expeditious than the 

 common way ; but it requires a fteady eye 

 and an expert hand to feed the ground evenly. 

 Vol. I. A a WEEDS 



