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gent abilities, that great deference ought to be paid to his 

 opinion. 



Putting some questions to hini on broad-cast husbandry, 

 his reply v/as : " Pray, don't ask me questions about the 

 broad-cast husbandry ; for I wish to answer you from 

 pradlice, and I have been so convinced of the superiority 

 of the drill, that 1 have had no broad-casting for some 

 years, and never shall again." 



Sir MoR DAUNT Martin, Bart, at Burnham, has 

 practised the drill husbandry ten years, for barley, oats, 

 and vetches, for soiling, at six inches; but no hoeing: 

 has had fourteen coombs an acre, of barley and oats, and 

 has had a last an acre of Tartarian oats, broad-cast. Has 

 never observed that the drilled crops ripened more une- 

 qually than others. 



Sowing on one earth in putting in barley, lie considers as 

 belonging to the drill. Sir Mordaunt is very well sa- 

 tisfied with the result of his experience ; he sows the seeds 

 broad-casr, and harrows. Barley tillage is, fiist to scale in 

 the tath, harrow, and then plough deep. Then harrow 

 once for drilling, and once after; then sow the seeds 

 broad-cast, and harrow twice, and with the harrows 

 drawn backwards, an iron being fixed for the purpose, by 

 which means the seed is not drawn out of the ground. 



In the pciiod of Mr. Coke's broad-cast husbandry, 

 1784, I found that he had two years before carried eleven 

 coombs and one peck of clean barley to market, over 162 

 acres ; and that year he had 300 acres, estimated by all 

 who viewed it, part at twelve cooxnbs, and the whole at 

 ten. 



In 1792 I was at Holkham, and found Mr. Coke then 

 drilling on a considerable scale. In 1791 he drilled 76 

 acres of barley, which produced 34 lasts 13 coombs three 

 bushels, or nine coombs two bushels one peck per acre : 



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