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on the Agriculture of Flanders by the Rev. Thomas 

 Radcliff,) supplies us with the following accurate and 

 satisfactory information derived from an experiment 

 made to ascertain the difference of result between the 

 di'ill and broadcast management. The gentleman who 

 introduced the drill culture, in the part of Flanders 

 alluded to, from a proof of its superiority, prevailed 

 upon his tenants to foUow his practice there, and I 

 Lope that Mr. INIeadowe's spirited example will have 

 equal success in all parts of this country whei'e beans 

 are grown. 



Cotajjarition between drilled and lroad<:ast hecins. 



M. Weilande, of Ostend, having heard of the drill 

 husbandry of some parts of England, was resolved 

 to compare it ^vith the broadcast method under his 

 own particular inspection; to this experiment he gave 

 up a certain portion of land which had been manured 

 the year before for Avinter barley ; this piece was of 

 equal quality, had been equally manured, and had 

 borne an equal crop. The seed and produce were as 

 follows : — 



The barley, which was sown afterwards, produced 

 after the broadcast beans, little more than 10 bis. per 

 acre, and that sown on the drilled part produced more 

 than 15 bis. per acre. The soil of the broadcast part 

 was hard, difficult to be M'orked, and covered "svith 

 weeds ; that of the drilled part was clean, loose, and 

 in fine tilth, which accounts for the superiority of the 

 barley crop in the follo^i-ing year on the latter part ; 

 the grain was much finer also on the drilled part, and 

 the ground was perfectly clean. The superiority of 

 the drill husbandry over the broadcast in this instance 



