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old pafture the foregoing fummer, are ploughed 

 up; taking care to lay the furrows as even as pof- 

 fible. A heavy roller is then pafTed over it; and 

 a man, or feveral men, each with a pair of inflru- 

 ments called dibbles,* walk backward, making two 

 rows of holes on the earth or flag turned out of 

 each furrow, fo that the holes are three inches diftant 

 in the rows, and the rows on each flag or line of 

 turf near five inches from each other. One pair of 

 dibbles employs four women or children, who fol- 

 low the man, and drop two grains into each hole. 

 After this, a hurdle, covered with buflies, is drawn 

 by a horfe acrofs the field till the wheat is covered, 

 and the holes are filled up. In this method, the 

 feed is regularly placed in the ground, four pecksf 

 being fuflicient for an acre, whereas ten pecks are 

 ufualiy fown broad-caft. 



An experiment was lately made in Norfolk, and 

 the following particulars laid before their Agricul- 

 ture Society; . 



** A whole field vj^s/own and^/, in alternate 

 ftetches. The fown wheat was cut, carried, and 

 threflied feparate from that which was fet. The 



• Short fticks with handles like a fpade, and pointed vn \he form of a 

 fugar loaf, with a crofs pin near the point, to prevent the holes being 

 UQ^de too deep. 



t Three pecks have been found quite fufficient. 



produce 



