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lands, dibbles in on whole funow : sometimes he dibbles 

 on riffled bnd ; but intends, in future, to put all such in 

 by the drill. 



Mr. Johnson, of Tiiurning, puts in liis wheat gene- 

 rally by dibbling on a whole furrow ; tempering was the 

 pradtice, but it is left off by the best farmers. 



Mr. England, of Binham, drills all his wheat on tire 

 flag, and prefers it to tempering ; and this not only here 

 on a soil comparatively light, but also at Hindringham, 

 where it is more stiff. He ploughs his ollonds diredllv 

 after harvest, to give time for the weather to pulverize 

 the surface ; but if there be not time for this, effedls it by 

 harrowing and rolling, &c. Direcflly after the plough, 

 he goes with a heavy two or three horse roller to press the 

 flag firm ; and weights Cook's n'^achine, which so does 

 well in every case he wants it for: Mr. England is 

 cleaily against the pra6lice of tempering light land, which 

 often brings popples, that would not otherwise appear- 

 Tempering is now done only by old fashioned farmers, 

 and' for the sake otfour-turrowcd work. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wightoii, whose farm is in such or- 

 der, that much attention should be paid to his pradlice and 

 opinions, akvavs drills on whole furrow, it tlie land be 

 clean: he had this year a remarkable experiment on this 

 point i trying part of a field on one earth, and part of k 

 tempered, and ihe former was the better crop, by at least 

 two coombs an acre : and whenever he has made the com- 

 parison, he has always found the result the same. There 

 is no difficulty, he observes, in drilling on whole furrow-; 

 immediately after ploughing, he rolls dov/n the flag with 

 a heavy roller; then leaves it two or three weeks, the 

 longer the better, as a stale furrow much exceeds a fresh 

 one; then harrows twice lengthways and twice across, 

 after which It is ia due order for the machine. 



Mr. 



