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23. lowing the feed broad-caft over the rough flag. 



For in th ' s cal ~ c ' P art of the fced falls trough 

 between the flags, and being there too deeply 

 buried by the harrows, the young plants are 

 longer in reaching the furface than are thofe 

 from the feed which happens to fall in a more 

 favourable fituation ; and which thereby gain 

 an afcendancy they never lofe : hence a number 

 of underling plants, and hence the fmall Ihri- 

 velled grains, which render the fample un- 

 fightly and unfaleable. 



Another good effedt remains to be noticed, 

 the employment of the poor; and whether we 

 view this in a moral, a political, or a private 

 point of view, it is equally defirable. For the 

 poor's rates of a country village fall principally 

 on the farmer ; and if he docs not employ the 

 poor, he mult fupport them in idlenefs ; more 

 efpecially children. Mr. B. fays, that in the 

 circle above-mentioned wheat feed-time is con- 

 fidered, by the poor man, as a fecond harveft. 



Mr. Smith, of Heavingham, gives a 



fomewhat different account refpedting the ad- 

 vantages of dibbling wheat. He fays, that he 

 has frequently had eight or ten acres of dib- 

 bled wheat in a year; that he has ufually 

 made the holes as thick as they could ftand, 



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