38 AGRICULTURAL SURVEY 



In treating of the procefs in feeding, I fhall 

 begin with wheat. This is partly dibbled and 

 partly fovvn broad-call : the former is not in fo 

 high eftimation as it was fome years fince ; but I 

 am of opinion, that when wheat is planted upon 

 clover of only one year's lay, it is the beft prac- 

 tice, efpecially if the dibblers are well looked 

 after, for in this cafe it will admit of a faving of 

 a bufhel of corn to an acre. This faving is an 

 important advantage, as a bufhel of wheat is 

 enough to fupport a man two months, as the ave- 

 rage confumption is fix buihels a-year to every 

 human mouth (b) ; and if we value the bufhel of 

 wheat which is faved, at fix millings, the farmer is 

 only four and lixpence out of pocket, as he can 

 have it done very well for half-a-guinea an acre, 

 and the corn is generally better bodied, and fome* 

 what heavier. For better information upon this 

 commendable practice, I beg leave to refer my 

 readers to the letters of John Burkin Burroughes, 

 Etc.. Mr; Wagftaff, Mr. Baker, and Mr. Varlo, 

 in the Appendix, where the method is fully ex- 

 plained j and I hope other counties will not fail 

 in adopting it. 



When wheat is fown upon one year's lay, it 

 never has but one ploughing ; and when it is 

 fown upon a fecond year's lay, it feidom has but 

 two. The old practice was, to break up the fecond 

 year's lay foon after the fpring grafs was eaten off; 



but 



