248 BARLEY. 



5s. Net saving by drill, 61. is. 3d. Produce; 427 coombs, 

 but five acres were destroyed by the wycr worm : per 

 acre, nine cormbs one bushel and a half: and if the five 

 acres be dedu61ed, lo coombs one bushel and a half per 

 acre. Sowed broad-casi, 38 acres, with 38 coombs of 

 seed: produce, 32 if coombs; or eight coombs two 

 bushels per acre: from that time he went on drilling, be- 

 ing convinced of its superiority, and has now no sown 

 barley. Thomas Fox, his bailiff, remarked this year 

 (1802), that in a field where was both drilled and broad- 

 cast, that the straw of the latter wasjaint, and the ears 

 short ; but that the drilled straw was stiff, and the ears 

 long. IVoiild you drill, if you had a farm of your oivn ? — 

 His answer to me was, / really think I should. He ap- 

 proves much of dibbling wheat. 



Mr. Reeve, of Heveringland, diills his barley at six 

 inches, and finds the crop better than broad-cast. 



Colonel BuLLER, at Haydon, drills ail his barley, and 

 finds that it beats the broad-cast oiU and out. 



Mr. Johnson, at Thurning, drills all on three clean 

 earths, the rows four inches and a half, with Ashby's 

 drill, which he thinks a very good one, though it is not 

 easy with it to make so straight work as with Cook's : an- 

 swers much better than broad-cast : the s^raw stiffer, and 

 the crop larger. 



Mr. England, of Binham, drills all. 

 Mr. Reeve, of Wighton, all ; the rows at six inclies 

 three-quarters; but thinks six, if the land is good, would 

 be better. 



Mr. M. HfLL drills nearly all his barley at six inches, 

 three bushels of seed an acre; when he sows broad-cast, 

 three and one-quarter : does not hoe. Sows clover, &c. 

 the day after. In 1802, he had two coombs an acre more 



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