1781. NORFOLK. Ji 



never before; and fheepfold, like other ma- 1 8. 



nures, may become lefs efficacious the longer SHEEPFOLD. 

 it is ufed on a given piece of land. 



19. 



AUGUST 20. In the above-mentioned piece 



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of wheat, I made a comparative experiment 

 on the mode of fowing. 



Part was plowed-in, agreeably to the com- 

 mon practice of the Diftrict, laying up the foil 

 in narrow ridges : part fown on the lafl plow- 

 ing, and harrowed in : part put in with Mr. 

 Duckett's drill-plow; which, from fome 

 practical knowledge of it, I had confidered to 

 be well adapted to the Norfolk foil. 



The fowings being made acrofs the manur- 

 ings, the two experiments became diflinct ; and 

 the refults clear and decifive. The time of 

 lowing the gift of October. 



The refult of this experiment was not fo 

 ftriking as that of the lafl. The part fown 

 over the furrow of the plow, and harrowed 

 in, is however, very perceptibly, the worfl ; 

 but on comparing the part plowed in with 

 the part drilled, no obvious difference is to be 

 perceived. Had the drills been nine inches 

 inftead of twelve inches apart, I am of opinion 



they 



