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lias been tried, and is yet done by some. In his. farm in 

 Bumt-fen, he sets everv thine. The (hill roller has been 

 tried there, but it would nor do : the horses drawing by 

 roo great a pui chase, tread in too much, and the roller 

 i^rives the furrows. 



At Oxborough, and its vicinity, great traiEls are dibbled 

 with wheat, oats, pease, &c. and tound to answer much 

 better than drilling, which has been tried. They put in 

 but one row on a flag of wiiear, six pecks an acre, and 

 hoe well : the result verv beneficial. 



Mr. Saffory, of Downham, dibbling a field adjoin- 

 ing to one of Mr. Creasy's, which was drilling at nine 

 inches, borrowed the drill for two lands, for comparison. 

 Those lands and Mr. Creasy's held were mildewed, but 

 the dibbled crop escaped. 



About Old Buckenham, much wheat set, and generally- 

 one row on a flag, which they plough as narrow as they 

 can, and put in six pecks of seed : thib practice they find 

 better than two rows. There is drilling, but A'Ir. Al- 

 GUR, tec. prefer setting greatly. Many oats also dib- 

 bled. 



" Dibbling pease, pratflised time immemorial near At- 

 tleborough ; but that of wheat, introduced by a labourer, 

 James Stone, of Deepham, about the year 1760, did 

 not become very common till about the year 1770." — 

 Marshall. 



Twelve years ago, and how much sooner I am not 

 well acquainted, \\\c\ had, botli in East and West Nor- 

 folk, discovered that this pra6tice was not to be pursued 

 under the notion (very common soon attcr its introduc- 

 tion), of saving seed: the usual qu.mtity was risen to two 

 bushels and a quarter and two busiiels and a half per acre, 

 and this both between Norwich and Yarmouth, and also 

 around Houghton. Mr. Layton nm.ukcd, that j^/z/wij- 

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