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from covering the seed with one-horse ploughs, five fur-» 

 rows to a yard, than from the drill. 



Mr. Coke drills at six inches three-quarters, and gets 

 immense crops : finer barley cannot be seen, than I view- 

 ed on his farm in 1800, 1802, and 1803. 



Mr. DuRSGATE drills all his barley at six inches three- 

 quarters. 



Mr. RisHToN, at Thornham, drilled all; some at six 

 inches tliree-quarters, and some at nine inches. 



Mr. Styleman, at Snertisham, drills all his barley on 

 his large farm of about 2000 acres ; the rows at six inches 

 three-quarters, and nme inches; and bethinks, upon the 

 whole, that his best crops are at nine inches. Drilling 

 much superior to broad-cast : he has this year part of a field 

 drilled, and part broad-cast; the former, the best crop, 

 and even the labourers confess it. The broad-cast has a 

 weak faint straw, on comparison with the drilled barley; 

 and Mr. Styleman attributes this superiority to the uni- 

 form depth of the drilled seed. 



Mr. Beck, of Gastle Riseing, drills at six inches and a 

 half, except on his very sandiest soil, on which he ploughs 

 in with one-hoise ploughs, to bury the seed deeper than the 

 drill. 



Mr. Edw. Scott, of Grimstone, on a farm of only 

 200 acres, drilled his barley in 1801, and it turjied out 

 much to his satisfadlion. 



Mr. Porter, of Watlington, drills all his barley; and 

 hoes all at 2s. 6d. to 4s. an acre, covering the clover seed: 

 the operation does much good to the ci op ; he had this 

 year 13 or 14 coombs an acre: 17 loads from four acres: 

 from another four acres 16 loads: from five acres reaped 

 10 loads, each from five to six score sheaves. 



Mr. Porter, of Tottenhill, this year drilled 190 acres 



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