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patted without feeding, the parallel rows, on each fide, have 

 tillered forth their branches, whereby there hath not been an 

 apparent deficiency, nor, perhaps, much of a real one : cer- 

 tainly it is, in general, or with rarely an exception, that lands 

 of the foregoing defcription, thus dibbled, with a faving, at 

 lead, of a bufhel of feed per acre, are productive of more than 

 the quantity faved, and that grain fpecifically weightier than 

 from equal land, after repeated ploughings, when fown broad- 

 cait produces. 



I wifii to add, with a degree of pleafurc — a pleafure refulting 

 from the parochial poor being found neceffary to be employ- 

 ed, as fome of thofe farmers who had fubftituted the fpike or 

 drill roller, have, from a conviction of an inferiority of the 

 planting by hand, turned back again to dibbling and drop- 

 ping ; while it is a juilice, due to fome of thofe who have thus 

 fubftituted the roller, that they have pleaded an expediency 

 from not being able, at all times, to procure a competent 

 number for dibbling, &c. — I wifh further to remark, perhaps, 

 with a degree of partiality, from having had the earliefl: pre- 

 dilection for dibbling of wheat, and being the firft who called 

 the attention of the fanner of this county to its utility, that 

 many hundred quarters of wheat are hereby added to the na- 

 tional flock, while, I believe, that little more than half the 

 fum of its value goes to the fupport and relief of thoufands of 

 parochial poor, who would, more generally, be deftitute of la- 

 bour, at the period of committing the feed wheat to the 

 ground. 



