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by drill-hufbandrv, be depofited in the land, 

 and good crops of peafe, potatoes., beans, cab- 

 bages, turnips, &c. be growing thereon, 



SECTION IV, 



By DrilUUufbandry, four Loads of Manure, pro- 

 perty managed and applied \ will anjwer the 

 purpofe cf fix teen Loads in the old Way of 

 Hufbandry. 



BY drills being made two ktt afunder, and 

 the drill fix inches wide at the bottom, there 

 will be juft one fourth part of the ground co- 

 vered with manure. Now, as fix inches mul- 

 tiplied by four gives two feet, which will be 

 the diftance from drill to drill, and as four mul- 

 tiplied by four makes fixteen, it follows, that 

 if the whole of the land had been covered with 

 manure, fixteen loads would have been requi- 

 red for what is as fully and beneficially per- 

 formed by four ; that is, by one quarter 'of 

 the quantity ufed by the old method of drefs- 

 ing, fuppofmg it of the fame thicknefs and 

 quality: and, as in the drills it is fo clofely laid 

 in the earth, and the feed fown upon it/ the 

 crop receives the whole of the benefit. 



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