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fully employed, and at the fame time to pre- 23. 



vent his filling up the holes with his feet be- minuxG 

 fore the feeds are depofited. Were he to carry 

 but one flag with him', the droppers would have 

 to pafs each other repeatedly, and have three 

 times the ground to walk over; whereas by the 

 above contrivance they are always uniformly 

 progreflive, and each child fmiflies its own flag. 



'The droppers keep up with their dibbler, 

 putting two or three grains of wheat in each 

 hole (but of peas only one); the girls carry the 

 feed in their aprons, the boys in their hats or 

 other contrivaace. Out of thofe they take , 

 about half a handful, and deliver the feed in- 

 to the holes through an aperture made be. 

 tween the firft and fecond ringers. Much 

 time and patience is neceflary to teach a child 

 to perform this petty bufinefs with propriety 

 and difpatch. 



be prefent price of dibbling a free light 

 foil is nine (hillings an acre and beer. It for- 

 merly was half a guinea. If the foil be ftiff or 

 ftooy, it is now worth more than that money. 

 The dibbler is a fort of matter of his fet ; for if 

 he has not children of his own, he hires his 

 (hoppers', giving them fixpence a day each if 



expert 



