Drills And Drilling

As the suecess of tho drilled whont ni this State during t.ho past season has been somewhat inarkoJ, it is probable tbat thoro will bo a greater demand than usual for drills. Souio years ago tbe udvantage of the drill system over broadcast sowing was discussed at onc of tbo English Agricultural Socioties, and the following advantages were given as tho summary of the discussion : 1. The seed ib deliverod with regularity. 2. It is depoaited at proper dop tb. 3. Tho -weed during tho growth oí planta aro destroyed with great faeility. 4. Tho piants cultivated receive tle undivided suiiport of the 530Ü and manure, and have tu roaintain a constant strugglo with weeds. 5. The land, by the process of hoeing, 9 undergoing preparations for another crop. 6. Tho necossity of summur fallowing ia avoided. 7. By the admiasion of air and 8tin to tbe rows a gtronger ond healthier plant is produced, and, of course, a heavior crop. 8. By 8tirring the soil it is more suícoptible of benent from the atmosphere imbibing more oxygen, and beiug both warmed and enriíhed by the Bun. 9. The roots shoot freely in pulverizüd soil. 10. By drilling the farmer is enabltd tohavo heavier crops of boans und wbfiat, on light land. 11. Clover and grass seed answer incomparably better in the puWerization produced by hoeing, independent of iüe clearness from weedi. 12. Tho drills gio faeility for depositing sinaller portions of inanure with groatLT effect. The reader will observe that in the third itfiin, it is stated that the weed are destroyed with great faeility. This is bec use the Bceds are sown in straight linea, and at regular distances apart. Koom is thns offorded the caltiyator to pass through, etir the soil with a hoe suited to the work, and i, . y all weeds. In the broadcast 6owing this c;m not be done, so that onr flelds are frequently badly robbed by woeds of the uutriment which the grain needs, and when barvested its prica ia much reduced by false and worthlesa seeds mixed with it. This is the "precess of hoeing" nlluded to in item five, as not only greatly bonefitiag the land for Buoceedini; cropa. It may be objected to this mode of raising grain that it will cost too niuch for labor. If the crop, however, wore largely inersased by this process, and the land put in excellent coudition for future orops, this objection would fall. At the metsting to wbioh we have alluded above, une of the speakera affirmed that fifty' six bushels of wheat por acre had beou ruisud ou some of the light scil of Norfolk.