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late, but zneven Tipe, and this is an inſurmountable ob(taclé to the ſale of it for the purpoſes of malting;, and in wet ſeaſons the growtli of the ſtraw has been ſo encouraged by the hoeing, that it has dropped before harveſt, and the gfain has been but of little value. Laſt year I divided a ten-acre piece, and drilled part with whitê Polard oats, in equidiſtant rows of one foot, after the rate of one buſhel and a half, and ſome part after the rate of two buſhels and a half per ÂCre,

“This was done the beginning of April; three weeks after I ſowed Zraadca/! the remainder of the field, with the ſame ſort of ſeed, after the rate of ſix buſhels per acre. Though ſown laſt, the ¿roadcaf! was ripe a fortnight before the drilled. The grain was of better quality, regularly ripe, and the pro- duce ten buſhels per acre more.‘The drilled crop, fewn thick, was better than the other. Were I to renew my practice of drilling, I would(particularly in ſpring crops) depofîit nearly double the quantity of ſeed recommended by the advocates for drilling, and at leaſt a month before the uſual time of ſowing broadcaft.

For beans, peaſe, vetches, turnips, potatoes, carrots, and all groſs-growing plants and roots, drilling cannot have a more warm advocate than myſelf; and with reſpe& to wheat crops on light ſandy ſoils that are ſubject to weeds, the ope- ration of hoeing, which neceflarily follows that of drilling, may frequently be of eſſential ſervice not only to the wheat crop, but to the ſucceeding ones; but with reſped to corn in general, and particularly ¿arley and oats, I muſt for the preſent demur, at leaſt, till I have ſeen better proofs in fa- vour of the drill ſyſtem. Perhaps, indeed, the ill ſucceſs which I have experienced, and particularly the late ripening already mentioned, mizht have been owing, in ſome mea-

ſure,