232 Remarks on Mr. Cooke's Drit! Machine.[Oct.

whereas hoeing this 13 the only method of keeping away the draughit, and without either this or watering, they must perish in these SedS0nS«

Practical Remarks on the Employment of Mr. Cooke's Patent, Drall Machine, over an Extent of about 260 Acres.

. HAVING in the first articles of the present and preceding number attempted to give a minute and clear description ot the Sowing machine and corresponding horse-hoe of the most ingenious. artizan in agricultural machinery, it may perhaps be of Some use both to him and to the public if we make 5ome observations on its practical application, over. an extent of about two hundred and fifty acres, in our own farms.

Thie farms 10 which we allude, were Situated in a part of Essex, where the employment ot this machinery was wholiy unknown, and of course we had to encounter all thoze difi- culties from the ignorance of labourers, which in Norfolk and Suffolk, and the greater part of Kent, would not have existed. But we will venture to aflirm that the use of these' machines, under all Such disadvantages, afforded us double the produce we could have reasonably expected without their assistance.

It is usual in the wet grounds of Essex, to,throw up the lands extremely high, 80 that the moisture may pour dowm into the intervyening furrows, and thus the part assigned to the growth of the vegetable 1s not injured by the Super- abundant aqueous deposit. The consequence of throwing these lands 50 high, is, that the wheels of the 850wing machive descending on both Sides into the furrows, the;coulters we have described which press on the middle of the lands are thrown up 850, that the beam to which they arc attached interferes with the progress of the machine, and it is rendered useless,

To remedy this inconvenience, it is reguieite to have two Sets of wheels; the diameters of the one being Six or eight inches longer than the diameters of the other, and by thig means the elevation in the middle of the lands will be found te be no material jinconvenience, the farmer will retain the advantage oi the roundness of bis lands, and epjoy all the be- nefits of this curious Contrivance.

The machine 15 intended either to sS9W a Darrow land at ONCE, ox 10 80W a broad land by going once down aud once up the Same land. It will immediately occur to. the expe- riehced farmer, that in the latter case the wheel which goes om the middle of the land will be considerably higber than that which goes in the turrow.'Lhe consequence of this 1s, that the canvas or flexible part of the funvels[1(See the plate of the last yumber) were tlrown 80 much out of the perpendicular, ihat the Seed in. consequence, lodged in the toids ot the Canvas