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dibbler generally undertakes the bufinefs of one 

 gang, after the ground is ploughed and rolled, at 9s. 

 9s. 6d. — I OS. or 10s. 6d. per acre: he hires other 

 dibblers, women at one fliilling per day, or men ac* 

 cording to their abilities, (women generally do two- 

 thirds of the work of a man) and children of feven 

 or eight years old at three pence halfpenny per day, 

 who follow the dibbler, and drop the wheat into one 

 row of the holes: Children, ten or twelve years old, 

 drop into two rows, and receive feven-pence per day. 

 An aftive dibbler, ufed to the bufmefs, with three 

 droppers at feven-pence per day, can plant nearly 

 half an acre, if the foil be favourable, and the wea- 

 ther permit: Land in good heart, which had been 

 well mucked for turnips, hoed and fed off, and fown 

 with barley and grafs feeds, which have continued 

 in grafs a year or two, is confidered not to want 

 manure ; but if otherwife, it may be mucked at the 

 rate of fifteen loads per acre, either before it is 

 ploughed, or after it is planted; if the former, plough 

 not more than three inches deep; and if the latter, 

 the muck fliould be carried on in a froft, or it may 

 be folded with flieep, which is preferable, on ac- 

 count of not carting upon the land. 



N. B. Peafe and beans are likewife dibbled, and one 

 6nly put into a hole ; and the holes for peafe are two 

 on a flag, three inches and half diftant lengthways i 

 for beans, only one hole in the middle of the flag, 



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