appendix; 



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On the Advantage of Dibbling Wheat. 



Extract or a Letter from Mr. CHARLES VARLO, 

 to LORD VISCOUNT CREMORNE, dated London, 

 21ft June, 1794. 



FLATTER myfelf you will be fo kind as to lay before the 

 Board of Agriculture, of which you are a member, one of the 

 molt valuable improvements that, perhaps, ever appeared in 

 that fcience, viz. 



The method of fetting corn, grain by grain, as at prcfent 

 practiced by a great number of farmers in Norfolk, and which 

 would become genera! in the three kingdoms, were it publicly 

 known to be of the utility it really is. 



As I was the firfl that proved its value, both bv theory and 

 practice, it gives me .great pleafurc to fee the method anfwer 

 my molt fanguine expectations, and overcome the prejudices 

 that were firih raifed againd it. I make no doubt, but were 

 this melhod to become general, that one-third more coin 

 would be produced, than is by the prcfent mode of random 

 fowing, bcfides other advantages that would adrue both to 

 the farmer and labouring poor. 



This is no chimeric.;! Icheme, but real f.icb, which I fhall 

 literally and limply (Low as they happened : — via. 



In 17^4 I tried the experiment, and infertcd the refult in 



ftiep, publiihed in the'fecond year, and have 



1 • in all my cdi- 



