42 MINUTES SEPT. 



23. expert hands, or threepence a day if learners; 



DIBBLING two of them being employed on one flag, each 



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taking one row of holes : fo that he pays for 

 dropping, threepence a day for each row of 

 holes. An expert dibbler will " hole" half an 

 acre a day, which at nine millings is four and 

 fixpence, out of which he pays one milling and 

 tfxpence to his droppers : but one-third of an 

 acre is reckoned a fair day's work ; which at 

 nine millings an acre is three millings ; out of 

 which paying one milling and iixpence, he has 

 one milling and fixpence left for his own day's 

 work. 



Quantity of feed. One bumel to fix pecks an 

 acre; and, if the flags crack much in plowing, 

 fome throw on half a peck or a peck an acre, 

 broad-caft, before rolling. 



Covering the feed. This is ufually done by 

 going twice in a place with a bum-harrow, 

 made by drawing thorns into a gate or a large 

 hurdle. Either of thefe however Mr. B. fays, and 

 with reafon, makes too large an Implement ; 

 for in fo large a fpace as this covers at once, 

 there will be protuberances which it will lay 

 hold of too much, and probably pull up, and 

 hollows which it will wholly mifs.- He has 



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