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brought it, by the beginning of 0(5lober, into a high state 

 of pulverization : in this state I began my operation by 

 rolling such a quantity as might be sufficient for two days 

 work. The surface then being as flat as Dorsible, I set 

 out the work thus : in the middle of the field (which wds 

 fixed upon because no side of it was straight) I ;:et up two 

 sticks, in order to draw a line as straight a" possible to 

 dire6l the drill. My drill is a small barrow with two 

 hoppers or boxes, one on each side the wheel, and is 

 pushed forwards by a man. In the line thus formed by 

 the sticks the barrow was direcled, depositing the seecJ 

 from the hopper on the right side ot the wheel upon the 

 fiat work. Immediately after the barrow, at the distance 

 of about ten yards, follov/ed a plough to cover up this line 

 of seed, by turning the mould of a fleet farrow u^on it : 

 when the barrow, followed by the plough, had reached 

 the end, the man with the barrow turned towards the left 

 hand, and at the distance of one yard from the line of seed 

 already deposited, dropped from the barrow another line of 

 seed parallel to the former : now a second plough followed 

 him as before, whilst the first plough, which had covered 

 the first line of seed, was backing its owii furrow. The 

 barrow-man, arrived at the end of the second line of seed, 

 turned to the left as he b.ad done before, and dropped a 

 third line of seed one yard from the first and parallel to if^ 

 and was followed by tiie first plough, whilst the second was 

 backing its own furrow. In this manner I worked, my 

 barrow depositing lines of seed, at one yard distance from 

 each other, and my two ploughs alieinalely covering the 

 lines of seed, and backing each its own furrow, till i nad 

 completed my morning*s work, at the end ot wnich you 

 wjil observe, that except tiie work of the barrow, 1 liad 

 merely ict out the tops of t!ic foar-furrow work of abcut 

 two icres of land, and there remanied the Lmiks to be 

 U2 split; 



