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fo as not to disfigure or interfere with one an- 23 



other ; and has dropped two bufliels, at the ex- 

 pence of twelve or fourteen millings an acre. 



He is clearly of opinion, that dibbling wheat 

 makes the land foul ; efpecially if it is not 

 dibbled thick ; and gives a very good reafon 

 for this opinion ; namely, where corn is thin 

 weeds will be thick. He is pofitive that the 

 grafs gets up more among wheat which is 

 dibbled than among that which is fown broad- 

 caft over the rough flag of one plowing : add- 

 ing, that after dibbled wheat he has ufually 

 been obliged to fow turneps the next year, 

 inftead of firft taking a crop of barley; the 

 common practice of this part of the country. He 

 however acknowledges fully, that the draw of 

 dibbled wheat is ftouter, and the grain evenner, 

 and of a better quality, than that from wheat 

 fown broad-cafl after any procefs whatever. 



Mr. John Baker, of Southreps, fpirited and 

 judicious as he is in matters of hufbandry, has 

 never had a fufficiemly good opinion of dib- 

 bling wheat to give it a trial ; not even by way 

 of experiment. His chief objection to it is, that 

 in this country, where the foil is mallow, and 

 the lays generally grarTy, wheat cannot be 

 fown in any manner with propriety on oae 

 plowing. 





