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loads, containing 40 bushels each of these composts, were drilled 
per acre, and I could have got in twice as much, or any quantity, 
with Hunter's drill." 
Mr. L. Uppleby, of Wootton House, near Barton-on-Humber, 
writes, October 4th, 1844: "If it be an advantage to be able to 
drill in a large quantity of compost, wet or dry, then Hunter's 
drill is by far the best yet out; and that it is an advantage few 
practical farmers will deny. I have drilled about 160 acres of 
turnips with Htmter's drill. The compost 1 used was the drain- 
ings and manure from our feeding beasts mixed, under cover, day 
by day, with dry soil ; and about 1 J cwt. of guano per acre. The 
compost and guano mixed with ashes amounted to about 4 cubic 
yards per acre. The season was, as you know, most unfavourable, 
but yet the turnips are verr/ good, although rather later than I 
should like to see them. For swedes I put in .5 cubic yards ; and 
on 3 roods of land for a person near me (who always borrows my 
implements), I drilled in at the rate of 13 cubic yards per acre ; 
thus showing that Hunter's drill is capable of depositing almost 
any quantity, and the delivery is so equal, the work may be done 
to the greatest nicety." 
The manure and turnip drill referred to was exhibited at 
Southampton by Mr. Hunter, but as no mention is made of it in 
the judges' notes, it would appear that it was not tried. From 
several other parties expressing the highest approbation of this 
drill, the writer has learnt that great numbers of the common 
drills have been altered to the same plan, which was the invention 
of Mr. Tobias Cartwright, of Fordington, near Alford, Lincoln- 
shire, in 1840 ; thus the acknowledgment of the value of a drill 
for depositing heavy tillages of manure or compost is become very 
extensive. 
Mr. Graburn, now of Walton House, Clevedon, Somerset, has 
this year practised another method — remarkable for its simplicity 
and effectiveness — which he describes as follows : — " My drill has 
no manure-box ; it consists simply of the seed and manure de- 
livering machinery carried upon two wheels, and following a cart 
in which a man stands, whose business it is to shovel the manure 
on to the machinery of the drill as fast as he can. The utmost 
quantity he could throw out was our only stint, and amounted to 
about 9 cart-loads per acre, say of 30 bushels each. The advan- 
tages of this plan over large drills consist in the saving of labour, 
time, and expense, besides a more equal deposition of the manure. 
You know that in the common large drills heavy nuunires are apt 
to consolidate in the box, and it is ditiicult to ' keep them alive,' 
but on my plan the manure is always light upon the drill-works. 
Three carts, three men, and a diill-man, keep the drill always 
going. At Butleigh 1 have been drilling manure and soil with 
