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aids to settle and consolidate the soil; the annual weeds have time to grow, which the drill in preparing the soil thus managed for the seed entirely destroys, and the crop of grain is kept during the summer, cleaner from weeds than it would otherwise be. He has reaped by this method in a dry summer fine crops of grain, when others not so treated, have perished through drought.

He prefers narrow farrows, his furrows, his ploughs being constructed only to turn the furrow nine inches wide, consequently do not perform so much work in a day as some common ploughs; but the ground is better broken, better prepared for the drill, and the grain finds more nourishment.

He drills for all his crops, but sours the seeds broad cast (turnips excepted) as the seeds fall naturally into the drills, or what escapes the hoe eradicates; turnips when eaten by the fly are well renewed by drilling, he has had good crops after the first sowings have been destroyed by the fly. Clover drilled among the corn he finds very advantageous, much seed being saved, and the crop better secured from the fly, which feed on this plant as well as on turnips. If the clover fails, he sows beets broad cast when the corn is near in the ear, which from the ground being loosened by the preceding drillings, are by the first rain washed into the earth, and ensure him a crop of grass; but he prefers a crop of clover alone, being the better preparation for wheat. catchword His /catchword