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defect of our climate. His water-drill pours down each manure 

 coulter the requisite amount of fluid, mixed with powdered 

 manure, and thus brings up the plant from a mere bed of dust. 

 Having used it largely during three years, I may testify to its 

 excellence. Only last July, when my bailiff had ceased turnip- 

 sowing on account of the drought, by directing the use of the 

 water-drill I obtained from this later sowing an earlier and a 

 better show of young plants than from the former one with the 

 dust-drill. Nor is there any increase of expense, if water be 

 within a moderate distance, for we do not use powder-manures 

 alone. They must be mixed with ashes that they may be dif- 

 fused in the soil. Now the expense and labour of supplying 

 these ashes are equal to the cost of fetching mere water ; and, 

 apart from any want of rain, it is found that this method of moist 

 diffusion, dissolving, instead of mingling only, the superphosphate, 

 quickens its action even upon damp ground, and makes a little of 

 it go further. 



Chandler's Water Drill. 



There is vet one more kind of drill. 7 he common drills 

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economize manure by concentrating it in lines along the rows of 

 the turnip plants. I'lius instead of shovelling bones from carts, as 

 Avas first done in Lincolnshire, at 60 bushels per acre, we came 

 to sow 16 bushels of bones only in lines, or more recently but 3 

 bushels perhaps of superphosphate, prepared gither from bones 

 or from the animal remains of geological ages, among which 

 Liebig told us, and told us truly, to search for our phosphorus. 



