20 DRILL FOR SOWING PEAS^ 



Very economical nion that it fows much better than any drill I have feen. If 

 ^^m!/"' ^"""'"^ the Society with it, I will fend a model for their infpec- 

 tion. 



I am. Sir, 



Your obedient Servant, 



ROBERT GREEN. 

 Wtjhvratting, Cambridge/hire, 

 June 27, 1802. 



SIR, 



I HAVE fent the engine for fowing peas, in order that It may 

 be laid before the Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c. 

 I intended to have fent a model of it, but afterwards thought 

 that the engine itfelf would be more acceptable to the Society. 

 I made it myfelf, and have fown with it 26 acres of land in my 

 own occupation. Mr. Piper, a near neighbour of mine, has 

 fown-with it five acres ; and Mr. Cock, of Blunt's Hall, 

 Wratting, in Suffolk, 25 acres, at ihe expence of I*, per acre. 

 Several other gentlemen had drills of me for fowing peas. If 

 I give my men ]*• 6d. per acre, they will fow for me two acres 

 in one day. I can with my own hand fow one acre in five 

 hours, and at the fameti(ne fow the peas, draw the drill, and 

 cover them, and make full twelve drills and a half to the rod. 

 I likewife produce the plant much handfomer than any other 

 feen in our country, and at a very trifling expence. By this 

 too, the labour of horfes is fpared, which we find to be a very- 

 material circumftance. It will be a moft excellent engine for 

 gardeners in the neighbourhood of London ; fori will heboid 

 to fay, that no man can fow with his hand, fo as to equal this, at 

 a very trifling expence. 



I have fpent much time in making implements of hufbandry, 

 but have made none fo ufeful as this ; for it is fimple in its con- 

 l1ru6lion, may be purchafed by any man, the expence being fo 

 trifling, and faves the labour of horfes. 

 I remain, Sir, 



Your moft obedient Servant, 

 I'FcJiiorattmg, ROBERT GREEN. 



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