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hours about him. Some of them fmiled, and 23. 



others laughed at his experiment ; he never- 

 thelefs proceeded with his little corps, and 

 finiflied his parch. 



The land being in good condition, and the 

 work being done inamafterly manner, the plants 

 came up fo ftrong and beautiful as to draw the 

 eyes not only of his fellow-panfhioners, but of 

 the whole neighbourhood. 



Mr. Barnard well recollects the circumftance; 

 for he pafTed the clofe (which lay by the fide of 

 a public road) every day in his way to and from 

 ichool : and fays, that he has frequently feen the 

 neighbouring farmers, in their way to market, 

 light at the gate, and go into the piece, to view 

 the crop, which was now become popular. 



At harveft the crop proved extraordinarily 

 good ; and the dibbling of wheat has, from 

 that time, been more or lefs praclifed in 

 this circleof the county : the only one in- which 

 the practice is, even yet, become general among 

 farmers. 



Enquiring of Mr. B. the proportion which 

 dibbled wheat in that country bears to the 

 wheat knvn broad-call; he fays, there is as much 

 dibbled as there can be hands got to put it in ; 

 and apprehends that one-half of the wheat 

 D 3 about 



