200 APPENDIX. 



On the Practice of Dibbling Wheat, 



Letter from J. B. BURROUGHES, Esq. to Sir JOHN 

 SINCLAIR, Bart, dated Burling-ham, 21ft August, 

 1794. 



SIR, 



A. HAD the honour of receiving a letter from you, with 

 your Addrefs to the Board of Agriculture inclofed, for which 

 J beg leave to return my proper acknowledgements. 



In your letter you mention Mr. Varlo's referring to me, in 

 a paper he laid before the Board of Agriculture, refpecting 

 fome important experiments I made in the practice of dib- 

 bling ; in confequence, fome queftions are propofed to me. 

 Permit me to obferve, Sir, it was not till the autumn of 1792, 

 I adopted this mode of fetting wheat, to any extent, there- 

 fore, cannot have made any experiments worthy to be laid 

 before the Board ; but have collected fuch information as the 

 neighbourhood affords on the fuhject, which, with my own 

 obfervations on the practice, I humbly fubmit to you. 



jfirst* What are the different forts of grain that can be dib- 

 bled to advantage ? 



9ii0faer. Wheat, peas, barley, and oats. — Beans alfo, when 

 grown in this neighbourhood, (which is but feldom) are dib- 

 bled. 



§>eC0irtJ» What is the proper feafon for each, and can dib- 

 bling be done earlier and in worfe weather than when feed is 

 fown by other proceffes ? 



gnsioer. 1 he weather fuitable for fowing, is the fame for 

 dibbling. — The wheat dibbling begins the middle of Septem- 

 ber, and continues to the end of Oclober 3 for barley and oats 



March, 



