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The above account, Sir, to the Board, is my own opinion, 

 if it will be of any ufe {hall be extremely glad, and fh.ill be 

 always ready to communicate to the Board any thing I a.n 

 able. 



Remarks on the advantage of Dibbling, 

 BY MR. WAGSTAFF. 



MUST beg to diffent from Mr. Kent, in refuel to dib- 

 bling being not in fo high eftimation, as fome years fince ; it 

 is, I believe, true, that in certain diftricts of Norfolk, that, 

 properly fpeaking, dibbling is fomewhat leffened in i's manual 

 practice — as, to fave the expence by hand, many farmers have 

 adopted fpiked and drill rollers, imitative of the procefs pur- 

 fued in real dibbling; while this is a confeffion to, and con- 

 firmation of the utility of dibbling, its manual practice, where 

 hands are ea'fily procured, doth not appear to be leffened, 

 where it hath been long adopted, while it is annually diffu- 

 fing in an adjoining county, and is become a fuhjeft of experi- 

 ment in other counties. Indeed, what this gentleman Has 

 faid, that wheat fo planted is better bodied, and confequehtly 

 heavier, is true, in faft, while a faving of feed is acknow- 

 ledged : thefe, with the clover or graffy leys, being paftur- 

 able to the hour of ploughing, while the inverted turf is a cer- 

 tain manure, and forms, as it were, a matrix for the nourilh- 

 ment of tiie embryo feed, which, to tion, dilates its 



fhoots, covers its allotted fp. ice, and each fhoot has its culm 

 or tlem, the ear of which is more replete in numbei . and with 

 a larger grain than arifes in the I nd " may 



be remarked, that where certain holes have < 



