40 MINUTES SEPT. 



23. come out clean, and wear bright, or the ope- 



DIBBLING ration is not perfect. 



WHEAT. 



Another difficulty in dibbling is to make 

 the holes 'at equal diftances ; more efpecially 

 to keep the two rows ftraight- and parallel with, 

 each other : for the dibbles being two di- 

 flinct inftruments, it requires fome practice 

 to guide them with precifion ; fo as to pierce 

 the flag in the exact point required. To re- 

 medy this, couples have been invented to keep 

 the dibbles at a given diftance -, but this ren- 

 ders the implement complex, and prevents the 

 learner from ever being able to ufe them fingly. 

 A man muft be aukward indeed if he does not 

 in a few days without this incumbrance make 

 himfelf a tolerable mafter of dibbling. 



A middling workman will make two mo- 

 tions, or four holes, in a fecond. 



One dibbkr employs three droppers ; there- 

 fore one man and three children are called a 

 fet. Each dibbler takes three flags, which he 

 performs upon by ftages thus : He firft takes 

 an outfide flag, and having gone fome yards 

 upon that, he returns ; not upon the next flag, 

 but upon the other outfide flag of the three ; 

 and then finifhes his flage by taking the middle 

 one. T}m is done to keep his three droppers 



fully 



