The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs, containing a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture, and arable land, &c., and making them produce greater crops of all kinds, and at much less than the present expence, ... with many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published / First begun by Samuel Trowell, and now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry; by William Ellis.

Trowell, Samuel

Date:: 1750

Credit: The farmer's instructor; or, the husbandman and gardener's useful and necessary companion being a new treatise of husbandry, gardening, and other curious matters relating to country affairs, containing a plain and practical method of improving all sorts of meadow, pasture, and arable land, &c., and making them produce greater crops of all kinds, and at much less than the present expence, ... with many new, useful, and curious improvements, never before published / First begun by Samuel Trowell, and now compleated with a supplement to every chapter on husbandry; by William Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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the fame time the Seed falls into the Drill *, both which being immediately covered with Mould by the little Harrow, or by the Gatherer ; the Manure in this Por¬ tion of lying will be fo far from burning the feed, that the Moifture, of the Earth which invellopes on all Sides, will affuredly caufe the Manure to a<5b, force the Seed to vegetate, and bring forward the largeft of drilled Crops in the fhorteft time. How a certain Farmer fow’d the great-ear*d Smyrna Wheats in the common Way, and loft mo ft of its Crop5 and how it may be fown out of the four-wheel Drill- Plough, to the greateft Advantage. VMTRNA Wheat is a Sort that grows in the ^ biggeft of Ears, except the Indian Sort j one of which I take to carry more grains in it than two or three Ears of Lammas does: And as it grows in fuch large Ears, it certanily requires the greateft Nourifli- ment that can be given it in a Field. A Neighbour of mine fowed this Smyrna Wheat-feed among his common Wheat-feed in the promifeuous or random way, thinking it might thus grow to Advantage % but the Conlequence proved his Miftake, for it did indeed grow into Ears, but they were very little bigger than the Dugdale fort, which fo difeouraged our Far- ■ mer, that he never more attempted to fow Smyrna Wheat again. For it is certain, that this great ear’d Wheat cannot have Room enough to fpread its Roots, and draw a fufficient Nourifhment from the Ground to maintain its Growth to thelaft, when it is fown broad caft, or otherwife, in the common Manner of fowing Wheat. Wherefore I will here fhow a way that it will grow in the greateft Perfe&ion ^ and that is, by fowing it out of the Seed-hopper of the four-wheel Drill- Plough, with fome efficacious Manure run out of the Manure-hopper on the Seed. I have feen a whole B 4 Field

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