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ground's not being regularly covered, whether 

 the wheat's having been deftroyed by water in 

 the winter, or from any other accident -, the 

 farmer may always find fome part of the fame 

 field from whence he may draw plants without 

 doing any harm •, and if he be a neat hufband- 

 man,he may fill up the vacancies by tranfplant- 

 ing from thofe fpots where the plants are fo 

 thick as to injure each other. 



SECTION XXI. 



Advantage of Dibbling Wheat. 



THE great advantage of dibbling wheat is 

 in the treading of the light land by people pafs- 

 ing and repairing; for the regularity of fowing 

 is not fo great, children often dropping in 

 twenty grains inftead of four. I much approve 

 of the pra&ice on all flag land or fwards plough- 

 ed up for clover, hay, &c. ; for the men or 

 women ftepping backward upon every furrow 

 to make the holes, and the children to depofit 

 the wheat, tread the land down fo that it has 

 an immediate connection with the ramel. The 

 grain is depofited where it ought to be, in the 



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