46 MINUTES 



SEPT. 



23. has tried it two or three 



DIBBLING different times : the firfl trial was on a piece of 



WHEAT, 



good land, with about three pecks of feed 

 an acre : the crop good, and flood when moil 

 of the wheats in the county were lodged. . 

 The laft was on a light fhallow foil : it proved 

 greatly too thin : not half a crop. 



From the fum of this information the dib- 

 bling of wheat appears to be peculiarly adapted 

 to rich deep foils ; on which three or four pecks 

 an acre dibbled early, may fpread fufficiently 

 for a full crop : whereas light, weak, fhal- 

 low foils, which have lain two or three years^ 

 and have become grarly, require an additional 

 quantity of feed, and consequently an addition 

 of labour, otherwife the plants are not able to 

 teach each other ; and the graites of courfe find 

 their way up between them ; by which means 

 the crop is injured, and the foil rendered foul. 



Dropping being the mofl difficult part of the 

 bufmefs, it feems to be ineligible to begin with 

 wheat ; the grains of which being fmall and ir- 

 regular, are, to a learner, difficult and dif- 

 agreeable to feparate ; whereas thofe of peas, 

 being larger round and flipper}', arc more agree- 

 able to the touch, and more eafily parted iri 

 the hand ; fo as to drop one or any other given 

 humber into each hole; 



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