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One man and one young woman dibbled, 28. 



\vhile three women and three girls dropped. DISBMVC 



They proceeded thus : the man carried three 

 flags, the women two. The man was followed 

 by one woman, taking the firft flag, and three 

 girls taking among them the remaining two. 

 The woman was followed by the other two 

 women, each of them taking one flag. When 

 the weather holds fair, the fet do about three 

 quarters of an acre a day, at ten Ihiilings and 

 fixpence an acre. 



The man, the woman dibbler, and the two wo- 

 men " head- droppers," come from the Suffolk 

 fide of the county : the other woman and 

 the girls are of this country; this being 

 their firft feafon^ One of them drops very 

 badly; fometimes putting fix or feven 

 " kernels" in a hole ; befides fcattering a 

 great many upon the furface. This fhews 

 the impropriety of fuffering children to come 

 untutored into the field. The head-drop- 

 pers do it - very quick and very neatly ; 

 dropping two, three or four kernels in each 

 hole; and about five pecks an acre. 



The diftance of the holes, and the method 

 .of dibbling and dropping (except the arrange- 

 ment of the droppers), exactly the fame as de- 

 E 3 fcribed 



