WHEAT. 2^5 



Not SO much dibbling as before. A new drill Is In use; 

 four inches for barley ; it has cups and pipes, buc not 

 Cook's ; price 30 guineas. 



At Thelton and the vicinity, some farmers so much ap- 

 prove this method of putting in wlieat, as to praftice ft 

 even on summer fallows ; they pass a heavy roller over the 

 land, which prevents the moulds filling the holes of the 

 dibbles. 



In Loddon hundred there rs much wheat dibbled, one 

 row on a flag. 



Mr. TiiURTELL dibbles, as general in his neigh- 

 bourhood, two rows on a flag; if hand-hoeing be neces- 

 sary, one row ; but in that case some few drill at nine 

 inches. Air. Thurtell would prefer dibbling one row. 

 He has tried putting the seed in by spike rolling; hut he 

 thought it made the wheat root fallen, which he attributed 

 to the seed being too shallow. Nothing in his experience 

 so good as dibbling; but drilling does well. 



At Caistor, &c. in Fleg, three-fourihs of the wheats 

 are dibbled two rows on a flag. One bushel of seed wouki 

 do, in Mr. Everit's opinion, but as it depends on tl>e 

 droppers, they put in from six to seven pecks. He made 

 a comparative experiment in dibbling : the common way 

 js, so to spread the two rows on a flag, that they are apt to 

 be too near the seams. He made the dibblers keep their 

 liands as close together as they could work them, setting 

 the two rows verv near each other in the centre of tho 

 flag. The result proved the excellence of the practice, 

 for the crop was beautiful. 



Mr. Ferrier, of Ilcmsby, two rows on a flag, and 

 as close as he can get it done. 



Mr. Brown, of I'hrigby, thinks that there arc five 

 times as many acres of wheat and pease dibbled in Flcg as 

 rirj sown bioad-csst. He remarked, that their lands, 



though 



