Implements of Hufbandry.—Drill-Barrow—Hocs. 19

paffes between the wheel and feed-box. By this means the wheel moves on a{fmooth furface between the land fide and mould-board, and the feed is depofited at a re- gular depth. For beans he finds two inches to anfwer very well. By means of the fame plough he has fown both wheat and barley at different intervals from fix to twelves inches, and one and a half or two inches deep, with good fuccels; and for{mall concerns, he thinks that this cheap and fimple apparatus will be found very elicible and advantageous.

The drill is fixed to the plough by two pieces of iron going from the ends of it, one to the beam and the other to the ftilt; which moving round on bolts, allow the wheel to fall and rife with every accidental hollow or eminence. The lower

_ part of the coulter is kneed or bent to bring it to the fame plane with the land

fide of the plough.

The Drill-Barrow is an inftrument contrived with much fimplicity, and well adapted for fowing fome grains and{mall feeds, as it can be readily regulated in refpe&t to the proportion of the feed. It, however, fows only one row at a time, which in many inftances is inconvenient. This machine would be much improved +f it were made to drill feveral rows at once, and capable of being regulated in re- fpeét to diftances for the feed. In fome places this drill is much efteemed for putting in bean crops, in doing which it delivers into the furrow.

HOES.

Or this kind of tools there have been a great number invented at different times both for the purpofe of being drawn by horfes, and ufed with the hand. Mr. Cook’s improved horfe-hoe is unqueftionably a good implement for hoeing crops at certain diftances; but for narrow irregular diftances the expanding horfe-hoe, contrived by Mr. Amos, is probably a preferable inftrument, as its moveable fhares render it capable of being regulated to different fpaces, according as the crops may have been drilled with greater or lefs intervals. It will be found moft ufeful on light friable foils, and where the ground is in a mellow condition. This hoe is conftantly made ufe of by fome good farmers in Lincolnfhire for beans, cabbages, potatoes, and fuch- like crops, and found to be very effective*.

M‘Daugals’s improved Hoe is conftruéted on a fimple principle, and anfwers the

‘various purpofes of a hand-hoe with great eafe and convenience, efpecially where

the grain or pulfe has been fown in equidiftant intervals.‘The wheel in this in-

* Young’s Survey of Lincolnfhire,