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amounts to not more than one (hilling per acre, 

 and the fervice rendered the crop is worth a 

 pound at lead per acre, exclufive of the advan- 

 tage of cleaning the land better than by any 

 other means ; for when you fee a weed, you 

 may with a common plough go fufficiently 

 deep, or give it what diredion you pieafe to 

 take it up. 



I have tried Cooke's fcarifler, and one invent- 

 ed by myfelf, for cleaning Hubble after harveft 5 

 but never found it anfwer fo well as the plough 

 and harrows. I much approve of Mr. Duck- 

 et's method of drilling : Mr. Cooke's drill fre- 

 quently delivers the corn thicker in one place 

 than another. Mr. Ducket's is of fo fimple a 

 conftrudlion that it may be made out of a drag; 

 for it is only having a number of mortices to 

 put the fmall fhares in, (that is, double the 

 number of holes J ) for I am of opinion that 

 white corn of all kinds fhould be fown not left 

 than fix inches afunder. The thicker it grows 

 upon good land, the better : there is nothing 

 to be feared from fmothering it, as the produdt 

 is at the top. Crops of white corn are liable to 

 break down and receive great damage bywind 



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