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It will be generally agreed, that beans, peafe, 

 cabbages, &c. are by this method allowed a 

 proper fpace to bring them to the greater! per- 

 fection, and a fufficient quantity of manure to 

 promote a ftrong vegetation : but by fpreading 

 only four loads of manure in the old way, and 

 fowing the feed broad-caft, the farmer will find 

 himfdf greatly deficient in yield of corn, weight 

 of turnips, cabbages, &c. compared with the 

 crop produced by the new fyftem. 



Another great advantage attending my me- 

 thod is, that the crop will have double earth to 

 grow in, and that the land may be cleaned at 

 the fame time it is growing, and bear a much 

 better crop of wheat afterwards. Many other 

 benefits will ariie from the ufe of this drill hus- 

 bandry. By putting the manure in as here di- 

 rected, the fun is prevented from exhaling mofc 

 of its fine fubtile parts, fo conducive to, the 

 nourishment of the plant: the earth, by cover- 

 ing the manure, receives all the juices the ma- 

 nure is capable of beflowing: whereas, .by 

 throwing or fpreading it about upon the. land, 

 perhaps the feed falls in one place, and in ano- 

 ther the manure, which the fun and wind dries 

 to fuch a degree that it becomes like ftraw 

 again, as the fcantinefs of the crop too often 

 makes evident. 



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