54 MINUTES OCT. 



28. fcribed by Mr. Barnard ; whofe account is, I 



am now ^ u ^ convinced, a very faithful one, 



The feed was brined and limed. 



The droppers carried their feeds in boys 

 hats fewed up about half way acrofs, leaving 

 an opening fufficient for the hand, with a firing 

 by way of a bow or handle, J\ bufhel with 

 the feed flood in the middle of the clofe ; out 

 of this they replenifhed their hats, every time 

 they paffed it. 



The foil lightilh loam (too light I am afraid 

 to be dibbled with wheat), but had been marled 

 lafl year. It is a fecond year's lay, and was 

 paftured this fummer. 



It is plowed fleet, and very badly, the flags 

 being much broken, and very uneven : were it 

 plowed a little deeper, which I apprehend it 

 might be with fafety, the flags would not break 

 fo much, and there would be a better bed for 

 the feed. The dibbiers are obliged to keep a 

 lie;ht hand, and make their holes lhallow, left 

 otherwife they fhouid flrike their dibbles quite 

 through the flags. 



The flags are rolled before and " buflied" af- 

 ter dibbling ; the latter with a harrow made of 

 a ftrong large hurdle, covering better than half 

 a rod at once. 



The 



