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fcale ; and the expence is now reduced to eight 

 fhillings per acre on the average.* Each dibbler, 

 employing three droppers, will fet half an acre a 

 day, making eight holesf in the length of every 

 foot of the flag, whereby two dibblers with fix 

 droppers will find full employment for one plough> 

 which, however, is not very material, as there will 

 be no iofs of time on that account, for the land 

 may be all ploughed and fet as foon as convenient. 

 The advantages attending this pradice are, the 

 faving of a^conliderable quantity of feed, fix pecks 

 per acre at leaft — obtaining cleaner and better corn 

 — providing a very lucrative employment for many 

 of the poor, who would at that feafon have litde to 

 do — and gaining a greater produce. The laft- 

 mentioned benefit, however, I aflfert on no better 

 ground than that of two experiments only, but 

 thefe were conduced with fo much care as to b« 

 nearly decifive. 



, Thefe trials were made in the years 1774 and 

 1775, in the following manner:- 



About Michaelmas 1774, a field of clover and 

 ray-grafs ftubble, containing twelve acres, was 



• It is now done for 6s. per acre very well, nearly an acre being done 

 in* day in fgme placee, f Six are l\ifficient. 



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