SEPT.] WHEAT AFTER CLOVER. 



the centre of the flags and the regular treading 

 the land received, pressed down the furrow, mid 

 gave a degree of firmness not Otherwise attainable-. 

 The success was gu-at ; and had the labouring 

 poor kept to that care and accuracy which they 

 began with in dibbling, the practice \\ould never 

 have lessened ; but the great earnings they made 

 gave a spur to their avidity, and they have both in 

 Norfolk and Suffolk done it of late years in so 

 slovenly and careless a manner, that drilling is 

 every where coming in, instead of a practice 

 esteemed by many of the most intelligent farmers 

 as unrivalled when well performed. At present, it 

 is thought in those counties the mark of a bad 

 farmer to sow broad- cast wheat on clover. 



The land having been ploughed a fortnight or 

 three weeks*, it is to be well roiled down with a 

 heavy roller, and then dibbled : here, as in all other 

 cases, the chief attention is to be paid to the dib- 

 blers making the holes deep enough, and to the 

 children dropping equally without scattering. It 

 is then bush- harrowed. Six pecks of seed is 

 enough for two rows on a flag in this month. 

 But if only one row, still I would recommend as 

 much seed to be put in. And another observation 

 it is necessary to make, that if the land is known 

 to be given to the mildew, an increase of seed on 

 that account is right, whatever the soil or season ; 



* On to drill-stitches, if that husbandry is at any time to be 

 pra&ised in the field. 



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