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thefe repetitions arofe from my convidion of 

 the great lofifes occafioaed by the too general 

 negled of tliat falutary pradlice. 



I like wife repeatedly recommended great 

 quantities of feed for all crops; for I do not 

 recoIIe6t an inftance of land being injured by 

 too much manure, or a crop by too great a 

 quantity of feed having been fown. I have, 

 indeed, known a good crop from thin fowing. 

 In one inftance, where four Winchefter bu- 

 Ihels of barley had been fown broad-cafl; oa 

 four acres of land, the produce was twenty- 

 four quarters, eight Winchefter buftiels to the 

 quarter, delivered at the kiln : but I have 

 Iince that time known five hundred inftances 

 to the contrary. A friend of mine once fowed 

 twelve bufhels of oats on one acre of land; 

 and the produce amounted to fifteen quarters— 

 the greateft I ever heard of. It is however 

 polTible to fow too much ; but it comes fo near 

 to a man*s pocket, that it rarely happens. 



There have been many experiments tried 

 with dibbling, drilling, and broad-caft ; and 

 the broad-caft has generally produced the 

 moft. The caufe is evident: more feed was 



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