^^4 W H E A To Kf. 



The ufc of fowing the furrows is to give 

 the outfidcs of the ridgclets their due pro- 

 portion of feed ; thereby preventing the inter- 

 furrows from being left too wide and naked of 

 plants. Some farmers fow only one of the 

 "dutfide furrows ; namely, that toward the 

 Worked ground •, and this is undoubtedly the 

 more requifite buifinefs ; for the feed on thi^ 

 fide having been all gathered up by the pre- 

 cedin<5' furrow, the crumb or fhovelling of the 

 inter-furrow is left naked; and there would, of 

 courfe, be no feed buried under it, if it were 

 not thus fown by hand, in the preceding plow- 

 furroW-. 



In fix-fur row work, three plows employ a 

 fecdfrnan^ and finilh about three afcres a day'. 

 In four-furrow work, two plows find employ- 

 ment for a feedfman, — there being, in thi^ 

 cafe, more furrows to be fown,— and finifli 

 about two acres. 



The dibbling^ "dabbing," or fettingof wheat; 

 is confined principally to the country about 

 \Vyndham, Attlcbury, Buckcnham, Harling, 

 ■V ficc. In the other Diftrids of Norfolk it is 

 but little known, and no where panifedi, 

 though fometimes tried by way of experi- 



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