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SECTION V. 



Method of making Drills, and putting Manure 

 in them. 



THE beft method of making the drill is 

 with the Rotherham or fwing-plough, by draw- 

 ing a furrow down the land, then coming back 

 without any furrow to the place you began at, 

 and beginning there and drawing, by the fide 

 of the firft furrow, another furrrow twenty-four 

 inches diftant, in the manner land is wreft- 

 baulked, and then coming up the firft furrow 

 again. The firft drill is then finilhed. By this 

 method the plough makes an open ridge, fo as 

 properly to contain the manure. When this is 

 done throughout the field, or as much of it as 

 you choofes then, to put the manure in the 

 drills, let the horfes go up one drill, and the 

 cart-wheels up the two others. Going along 

 the drills in this manner will injure them but 

 little. The man in the cart may, if required, 

 throw from the fame ftation manure into nine 

 drills. The load of manure fhould be fuch as 

 to go through the field in a ftraight line; as 

 turning round with the cart would fpoil the 

 drills: therefore no more drills muft be ma- 

 nured than the load will go through with. My 



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