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persed promiscuously over the ground, to perform 

 this operation is next to impossible. 



161. The great obstacle to the following of a 

 method so obviously advantageous, is, the trouble. 

 To draw lines for peas and beans is not deemed 

 troublesome ; but, to do this for radishes, onions, 

 carrots, lettuces, beds of cabbages, and other small 

 seeds, is regarded as tedious. When we consider 

 the saving of trouble afterwards, this trouble is 

 really nothing, even if the drills were drawn one 

 at a time by a line or rule ; but, this need not be 

 the case ; for, a very cheap and simple tool does 

 the business with as much quickness as sowing at 

 random. 



162. Suppose there be a bed of onions to be 

 sown. I make my drills in this way. I have what 

 I call a Driller, which is a rake six feet long in the 

 head. This head is made of White Oak, 2 inches 

 by 2' ; and has teeth in it at eight inches asunder, 

 each tooth being about six inches long, and an inch 

 in diameter at the head, and is pointed a little at 

 the end that meets the ground. This gives nine 

 teeth, there being four inches over at each end of 

 the head. In this head, there is a handle fixed of 

 about six feet long. When my ground is prepared, 

 raked nice and smooth, and cleaned from stones 

 and clods, I begin at the left hand end of the bed, 

 and draw across it nine rows at once. I then pro- 

 ceed, taking care to keep the left hand tooth of the 

 Driller m the right hand drill that has just been 

 made ; so that now I make but eight new drills, 

 because (for a guide) the left hand tooth goes this 

 time in the drill, which was before made by the 

 right hand tooth. Thus, at every draw, I make 

 eight drills. And, in this way, a pretty long bed 

 is formed into nice, straight drills in a very fsw mi- 



