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I have tried, the lofs of produce in both draw 

 and corn greatly furpaffed the value of the feed 

 faved. Some ufe in dibbling only fix pecks per 

 acre. But this certainly is too fmall a quan- 

 tity; for many of the grains fall by the fides of 

 the holes, and grow not up to perfection. 

 However, among dibbled wheat you will find 

 the feweft fmall and light ears. 



The expence of dibbling is with fome an ob- 

 jection. Individually it cofts money; but pub- 

 licly it cofts nothing, becaufe it is done chiefly 

 by women and children, who mud be main- 

 tained from the produce of the earth ; and is it 

 not better that the women and children mould 

 work for their meat and clothing, than to have 

 it found them for nothing ? And in the pro- 

 per feafon for dibbling wheat there is no other 

 fort of work for them. The expence is from 

 9^. to 10s. 6d. per acre. 



Some may fay, <c Clay foils it will injure. 5 ' 

 But I fay, no. For, during the winter the frofts 

 lighten the foil; and on fwards or clover-ley 

 there is amellownefs which prevents them from 

 being of too binding a nature. It might be an 

 improvement in the prefent practice, with the 

 fkim-plough thinly to pare the fod or ftubble, 



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