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€/ijCti)» The faving of feed, per acre, is (if die droppers are 

 carefully attended to*) about fix pecks of wheat, eight of bar- 

 ley, and four of peas and vetches. 



§>et>entl)» The additional produce, per acre, in wheat, I 

 cannot fo clearly fpeak to ; although I have dibbled my wheat 

 for feveral years, I never fairly tried the experiment. Laft 

 year was my firft dibbling of barley, and to try the difference 

 between fowing and letting, I dibbled a part, and fowed a 

 part of a ten acre piece, afcertaining the quantity of each, the 

 land hufbanded in the fame manner, and the dibbled and the 

 fown done at the fame time ; the dibbled land produced 

 twelve bufhels, per acre, more than the fown, which have in- 

 duced me to dibble the whole of my bailey this year. 



dEipM). The grain, both of wheat and barley, that is dib- 

 bled, is of better quality than the fown, it being more free 

 from drofs, and the kernel larger. 



jj5int6. Dibbling has fpread very faft in our county, the 

 diffemination thereof became eafv from the utility ; fome few 

 have introduced the drill, but the progrefs of that fyftem 

 feems to be very flow. 



Ha0tfl?» The advantages in dibbling, which flrike me, are 

 as follows : the increafe of crops, the faving of feed, and the 

 employment of a number of poor children, which, without 

 that, would be idle, are advantages, in my humble opinion, to 

 be recommended. 



* On the droppers depend very materially the faving of feed. I 

 have found, as the practice of dibbling increafed, that from the num- 

 ber of children working together, rendered it impoflible to make them 

 do their work properly ; therefore, I have, theie two or three lait 

 years, divided my dibblers, and have not more than two work toge- 

 ther, by which I have the feed dropped with more propriety, and 

 not half the trouble to myfelf. 



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