58 lATPLEMENTS. 



DRILL ROLLER. 



1 have at different periods made many inquiries for the 

 inventor of this tool, but could not ascertain it thirteen 

 years ago. Mr. Sillis, of Hartford Bridge, near Nor- 

 wich, was mentioned to me as a person who had im- 

 proved it. It is a cylirjer of iron, about seven feet long, 

 around wliich are cutting wlieels of cast-iron, that turn, 

 each independently of the others, around the common 

 cvlinder, weighing from a ton to if, drawn by four 

 horses, and hcavv w^ork. The cutting wheels, being 

 moveable, mav be fixed by washers, at any distance, 

 commonly at four inclies. By passing over a fresh- 

 ploughed layer, the soil is cut into little channels, four 

 inches asunder ; the seed is then sown broad-cast, and the 

 land bush-harrowed in the direcStionof the drills; thus the 

 seed is deposited at an equal depth. George Earl of 

 Orford gave the Writer of this Report one, but the 

 soil was too heavy for it: for breaking clods in a dry sea- 

 son, no tool 1 ever beheld comes near to it. 



They are much in use in Loddon hundred. Mr. 

 Burton, of Langley, put in a great deal of corn thus, 

 and approves the method so much, that hitherto he has 

 drilled little; but thinks dibbling a vast improvement. 



The implement was more cominonly used in the 

 county ten or twelve years ago than it is at present, for 

 the drill machine has been adopted by many who formerly 

 had a good opinion of this tool. 



DRILL MACHINE. 



Mr. Cooke's drill is very generally used in Norfolk, 

 and I found it every where highly approved. 



Mr. 



