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by the drill, unless it be on clover of one year, 

 ploughed with Mr. Ducket's skim -coulter before 

 winter, and left for frosts to work upon. On such, 

 the drill will work well. This is, however, a point 

 that must be left in some degree of latitude. No 

 general rule can safely be laid down : the fanner 

 must judge according to soil, season, his depend- 

 ance on dibblers, and other circumstances : both 

 methods, when well applied, are good. 



The dibbled crops demand harrowing with fine, 

 light, short-toothed harrows, which will not dis- 

 place the seed, and it should be carefully done, in 

 order to hide the holes from rooks. The drilled 

 crop wants only one light harrowing, to smooth 

 the land. 



In putting in beans after barley or wheat, on 

 land ploughed in autumn, the farmer must remem- 

 ber, that if the frosts have had full play, the sur- 

 face will probably be in such friable order, in a dry 

 February, that he must drill, as the mould would 

 run in, if dibbled, and fill the holes before the seed 

 is dropped. This is a circumstance that will suf- 

 ficiently explain itself. 



There is a practice about Coggeshal, in Essex, 

 that should here be noted. Their course is, 



1. Fallow, 5. Fallow, 



2. Barley, 6. Barley, 



3. Clover, 7. Beans, 



4. Wheat, 8. Wheat. 

 Designed, probably, to throw the return of clo- 

 ver to the eighth, instead of the fourth year. 



