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novf/ow any Wheat, if they can procure hands to 

 Jet it. It has been generally obfcrved, that although 

 thc/et crops appear very thin during the autumn 

 and winter, the plants tiller and fpread prodigioufly 

 in the fpring. The cars are indifputably larger, 

 without any dwarfifh or fmall corn ; the grain is of 

 a larger bulk, and fpecifically heavier per bulhel, 

 than when fown. 



The lands on which this method is particularly 

 profperous are, either after a clover ftubble, or on 

 which trefoil and grafs-feed were fown the fpring 

 before the laft, and on which cattle have been from 

 time to time paftured during the fummer.* 



Thefe grounds, after the ufual manuring, are 

 once turned over by the plough in an extended flag, 

 or turf, at ten inches wide ; along which a man, 

 who is called a dibbkry with two fetting- irons, fome- 

 what bigger than ram-rods, but confiderably bigger 

 at the lower end, and pointed at the extremity, 

 fteps backwards along the turf, and makes the 

 holes about four inches afunder every way, and an 

 inch deep. Into thcfe holes the droppers (women, 

 boys, and girls) drop two grains, whioh is quite 

 fufficlent. After i;his, a gate, buflied with thorns, 



• Wc cannot approve tbe cuftom of feeding cXoxtv previous to itt 

 Veing piantcU with wheat, as preferable to mowing the grafs. 



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