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Implements of Ilufbandrxj. — Turnip-Drill.

quantity of feed on the acre, at any required depth, with intervals of eight, nine,eleven, or eighteen inches, and at two, three, or four feet width, with confiderableexa&nefs; and that wherever it fails of fuccefs, he fuppofes, it mud proceed fromthe want of proper attention in the perfon who makes ufe of it. With him it hasbeen found ufeful upon all foils, except fuch as are llony or rocky, and he thinks itmay be employed with equal advantage on ftrong clays and clayey loams, as on thofeof the lighter kind. This drill is conftru&ed fomewhat on the fame principle of thatwhich has been juft mentioned, and is certainly capable of pretty general application.One invented and employed by Mr. Ducket is alfo fimple in its nature, and likewifefaid to be capable of being managed with great eafe, by an ordinary workman.

A machine of this kind, which the Kentifh farmers find very convenient fordrilling wheat, barley, oats, peas, tares, and various other crops, is made byMr. Wellard, of Deal. It is drawn by two horfes a-breaft in a double pair ofIhafts, and drills feven rows at a time, feven inches apart. From the peculi-arity of its conftru&ion, any quantity of grain required per acre can be drilled, andfrom its great fimplicity it is not liable to be put out of order. It cofts about four-teen guineas.

Turnip-Drill .—An ufeful inftrument of this fort has been contrived by Mr. Bailey,for fowing turnips on the tops of one-bout ridges. In this implement the defe&s offowing too much or too little feed are obviated. It confifts of a folid cylinder, madeof iron or brafs, about two inches in diameter and one inch broad, on the furfaceof which are formed fifteen or fixteen cavities refembling the form of a femi-egg whencut longitudinally, and as deep as to hold four or five feeds each. On the back ofthe cylinder, a little from the top, is placed the hind part of the hopper, to whichis fixed a piece of iron or brafs one inch long and half an inch broad, hollowedon the infide into the form of a Gothic arch, the fides of which meeting the fide*of the cavities in an oblique angle, prevent the feeds from being bruifed : at thelower end of this piece of iron, or gatherer, there is a flit three-tenths of an inchlong and one-tenth wide ; and at the back of it, a thin flat piece of iron moves upand down by means of a fcrew at the top of the hopper, which enlarges or leflensthe orifice direttly above the cavities, and increafes or diminifhes the quantity offeed delivered, as the operator may think proper. This flip of iron, or regulator,is let into a groove made in the board which forms the back part of the hopper.

The cylinder is fixed before the cavities are made, on an iron axle one nnchfquare, turned very true, as well as thofe parts of the axle which turn in the col-lars fixed in the handles. To the ends of the axle, two wheels, twenty-fix inche*in diameter, are fixed, which turn the axle and cylinder round, and which in

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