250 BARLEY. 



of barley ; some at six inches, some at nine, and think§ 

 nine (especially on a wheat stubble) the best. 



Mr. RoGERSoN, of Narborough, was amongst the 

 earliest drillers in Norfolk, and on a very large scale, 

 especially for barley ; but this year (1802) 1 found he had 

 put in all his crop with one-horse ploughs, preferring this 

 method, after long experience : he never had a better crop, 



Mr. Priest, of Besthorpe, drills his barley at nine 

 inches, and horse-hoes it if he has not sown grass-seeds i 

 and he has observed an evident benefit from the operation. 

 His threshers admit that drilled corn is fuller bodied than 

 broad-cast. At Shropham he tried seven, eight, and nine 

 inches distance of rows, and nine proved the best. 



Mr. Twist, of Bretcnham, drills all his barley, and 

 has much better than when he sowed broad-cast. 



8. Dibbling. — Mr. Drake, of Billingfold, dibbles bar- 

 ley on his lighter land on one earth ; one row on a furrow, 

 and then sows a cast and harrows ; and this he thinks pays 

 better than wheat on land much subjed to poppy, in which 

 he has had wheat that cost from 20s. to 30s. an acre weed- 

 ing and yet a bad crop ; but of barley never gets less thai^ 

 nine coombs an acre, and the land clean. 



Mr. Repton, at Oxnead, has tried dibbling barley, but 

 gave it up, as it would not answer, 



9. Produce. — In a tolerable season the poor sands in 

 the south west part of the county, of the rent of 5s. will 

 produce five or six coombs an acre; and in a good, that is 

 in a wet season, six to eight : the better soils in the same 

 distritft, intermixed with the preceding, give from six to 

 ten, which is not an uncommon crop in a wet year. The 

 richer lands, from Quidenham, by the line of separation 

 on the map, and from Swafham, by Castleacre, to Holk- 

 ham, are very fine barley lands, and yield great crops, not, 



however. 



