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Article XXIX. , 

 On fetting Wheat. 

 [In a Letter to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 



you tell me, in your lafl letter, that fome gen- 

 tlemen of your Society ilill doubt whether 

 the practice oi Jettini^ wheat becomes more general 

 in Norfolk; and that their doubts arife from an ap- 

 prchenfion that, on a large fcale, a fufficient num- 

 ber of hands could not be procured to do it. 



In reply to thofe gentlemen, L can not only fay 

 in general, that regular and profitable employment 

 ahcays creates lajorkmen^ but that in this particular 

 labour, in which xvomen as well as men can and do 

 dibble, and children chiefly drop the grain, we have 

 not yet met with any difficulty on that head; and 

 that the praftice increafes much in this neighbour- 

 hood, as I believe it likewife does in moll parts of 

 the county. 



At the fame time candour obliges me to obferve, 

 that my habitation is in a very populous part of the 

 country, where a fcarcity of labourers is rarely 

 known; yet I think the profit gained by the whcat- 

 fctters ,is fuch, that, in almolt every fituation, it 

 .vili draw people enough to that employment. 



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