BROADCAST, as opposed to the drill-husbandry, denotes the method of cultivating corn, turnips, pulse, clover, the foreign grasses, and most other field plants, that are not transplanted, by sowing them with the hand; in which method they are scattered over the ground at large, and thence said to be sown in broadcast.
Broad-
Piece,
Brocade.
cast. This is called the old husbandry, to distinguish it from the drill, horse-hoeing, or new husbandry. See AGRICULTURE Index.