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ON DRILL HUSBANDRY, HOEING, PRICE OF PRO- VISIONS,&c. To the Editor of the Agricultural Magazine. S1R, Feb. 14,-1804.

1 BEG that your correspondent, P.J. will acceptimy thanks for the handsome manner in which he has received my re- marks on his cummuvication on the culture of turnips. His letters in your magazine obliterate all doubts of his making any agricultural experiment otherwise tban with proper imple- ments, and with judgment and accuracy. 1 bave tried the culture of turnips on raised drills, with mtervals of 26 inches, on various descriptions of Jand; and from accurate compara- tive experiment,(the particulars of which I will probably communicate, through tbe channel of your magazine, at a future period), I am convinced that it1s greatly Superior, either to the broad-cast method, or to that of Sowing with varrow intervals; and I hope P.J. will give it a fair trial, both on the Tioht and Sandy, and Stronger Sotls. Any information I can give him, I shall be happy to communicate. 1f[ am rightly informed, Mr. Coke, and Some other able and public spirited friends to' the important cause of agriculture,(in Norfolk,) have drill-machines for Sowing turnips, of nearly the Same construction as those used with Such distivnguished Suecess in this part of the kingdom and the Southern distriet of Scot- land, where, I believe, our excellent practice originated, which, together with the invention of our present valuable threshing machines, I conzider as Sutticient(zzdependent of their other merits) to render our Northern bretbren famous in the history of agriculture, to the latest posterity."The inven- tion of the common dressing or winnowing machine, or, at Jeast, its use in this kingdom with effectual improvements, is also due to them, and is Still considered as a diScovery of im- portance; but what is it when compared to the vast power and utility of our threshing mills! Before the practice of SOwing turnips on raised drills was So well understood here, I Sometimes tried'the mode pursued by the farmers ot Norfolk, (mentioned by P.J.) of applying, and lghtly ploughing in, the dung, about a month previous to the Seed-ploughing. But instead of deriving any advantage from it, 1 am Satisfied that its effects were prejudicial, not only in leaving a good deal of dung on the zurface of the ground(after each of the two last furrows) exposed to the Injurious effects of the Solar rays,&c. but in burying other parts of it at two great a depth. 1 have long. conzidered it of vast importance, not only to allow the Jand to remain a few weeks, untouched with any implement whatever, between the last ploughing and the seed-furrow, but to have the dung applied fresh from the dungbhbill, with all