APPENDIX, 2lt 



It is true, I found out the firft principle by my machine, as 

 as before fpecified, but repeated trials fhewed, that no com- 

 plicated machine was equal to fetting by hand. 



About five years after my work circulated in Norfolk, 

 bunnefs brought me to th:it county, and in an open field, 

 about three mUes from Norwich, I was agreeably lurprized 

 to fee feveral tompanies at work, fetting wheat — this hap- 

 pened about twenty-five years fince : I never heard any 

 thing more of it till the prefent year, I came to Lynn in Nor- 

 folk, where I dined at the Crown Inn with a company of 

 gentlemen farmers, whp moftly followed that practice, and 

 who all agreed, that it was a \cry valuable difcovery, both to 

 Xhe farmers and the poor. 



Having fo good an opportunity of taking the fenfe of fb 

 many refpcttable farmers as were prefent, I begged to know 

 the particular advantage that accrued from this mode of fetting, 

 above all others they formerly pra£lifed, and if they were 

 willing I fhould report it to the Honourable Board of Agri- 

 culture, or the Royal Society, in order that if the members 

 of the faid Board thought proper, they might infert it in the 

 public papers, for the good of the community in general ; 

 they feverally anfvvered, they had no obje£lion how public it 

 was made, for it was well worthy of being communicated. 

 I requeftcd to know what the increafe might be by fetting, 

 and the other advantages? To thefe queftioris I was anfwercd 

 as follows: — Firft, that the produce was more, by ten or 

 twelve bufhels an acre, than by the former method, particu- 

 larly if the fet wheat is hoed. Secondly, it is lefs liable to 

 misfortune, fuch as lodging, after heavy rain;, mildews, &c. 

 Thirdly, the flraw is (toutcr and the grain bolder, conle- 

 qucntly would give the beft price. Fourthly, employing fo 

 many poor children, parifh rates would be lels. 



As to the quantity of wheat that might he Pel in the feafon, 

 ■i of by the gentlemen, whule names are here- 

 inafter 



