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wherever land is lefTened, for the garden cultivation 

 of cottagers, it is ill policy; and the efFeft on health 

 and morals mufl: be detrimental. An extenfion of 

 fuch cultivation may be looked to as a capital fource 

 of improvement among the poor of this country — 

 and confequently of national flrength. 



W. MATTHEWS. 



Art, XXXII. 



DireBtons for Dibbling Wheats as performed in 

 the county of Norfolk in 1795; communicated by 

 David Barclay, efq. 



T Tf 7HEAT is generally planted on a clover lay, 

 ' ^ and if the land be very light, it fliould be 

 ploughed a week or ten days before planted ; and 

 fhould a good rain fall, it will be advantageous, be- 

 caufe the holes will (land open the better to receive 

 the feed, and the ground will not rife fo much when 

 bufli-harrowed : In heavier land the plough fhould 

 precede the dibblers only a day or two, and be plant- 

 ed in the earliejl part of the feafon, which fhould be 

 particularly obferved; as heavy land, after much 

 jrain, cannot be dibbled. 



Plough 



