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For inftance, the price frequently given (although 

 1 never pay more than eight fhillings) is ten fhil- 

 lings per acre.* This in good weather may be done 

 by one dibbler, attended by three droppers, in two 

 days. This is five Ihilhngs per day, of which, if 

 the dibbler gives to the children fixpence each, he 

 will have himfelf 3s. 6d. for his day's work, which 

 is much more than he can polTihly earn by any 

 other labour fo eafy to himfelf. But put the cafe, 

 that the man has a wife who dibbles with him, and 

 two or three of his own children to drop to him, you 

 fee his gains will then be prodigious, and enough 

 to infure a plenty of candidates for that work, even 

 in the lealt populous parts of the country. 



When I fay the pra(5lice oi Jetting wheat in this 

 county is become more general, I would not be un- 

 derftood that it is praftifed to the entire exclufion 

 of fowing broadcalh improvements in agriculture 

 are flow in their progrefiion. Since the firft intro- 

 du6lion of turnips, and I believe it alfo of clover, 

 the culture of them did not for many years extend 

 from the places of their firft trial more than in 

 the proportion of one mile in a year. The/ettwg 

 wheat you know is of a modern date ; and this laft 

 feafon was late in confequence of the backwardnefs 



* Although it is now done for fix fhillings an acre, the labourers 

 earnings, from their expertnefs in the bufinefs, is very nearly, if not 

 quite, equal to what is here ftated, 



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