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of burnet is by no means enough; 2olb. per acre, at least, should be sown.’—/zll. Pitt.

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DRILLING.

<¢ In light, sandy, or meagre soils, which constitute a great <¢ proportion of the land best adapted to the drill husbandry, < there is little doubt but seven inches interval of the drills is, < in the culture of wheat or barley, preferable to nine inches 5 <¢ the difference of produce will probably be found, upon a -<< fair trial, to be= cal bushels per acre, in this kind of id<< land; as by the approximation of the rows, the plants ina -<< hot dry season will be better protected from the scorching effects of the solar heat. As the ascertaining of this point

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\d<< is of great importance at a time when the drill jn lle

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is practised to so great an extent, and more r may pro-

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bably be adopted in the culture of the waste er s, a large <¢ proportion of which are, in respect of soil, of the above- << mentioned quality: the promoting of the necessary trials

<¢ for ascertaining this point in a variety of soils, appears not

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SOU worthy the attention of the Board of Agriculture; and

<¢ in case drills of seven inches interval shall in general prove

So |<‘ more productive than those of nine inches, it will bea <¢ sufficient inducement with Mr. Cook, to make the neces-

b,‘¢ sary alteration in the construction, at least of a part, of his

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atent drill machines; that so, ever“farmer may be accom- P

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modated with such as best suits the nature of the soil he

Hig<‘ has to cultivate.”"—Rev. Sam. Dickenson.

SOWING GRASS-SEEDS WITH DRILLED BARLEY.

«¢ Grass-seeds may be sown on land where barley is drilled, << and all the advantages of hoeing retained: for this pur- ‘© pose my practice is to omit sowing these seeds for a month