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Leaving Molt in the way to Holkham, came to four- 

 furrowed work wheat stubbles. 



J)rii/ifig.— More than thirty years agoMr. Fellowes, 

 at Shottesham, drilled wheat at eighteen inches, the rows 

 cqui-distant, which produced equally with the common 

 crops of the country. 



Mr. Dalton, of Swaffham, has drilled largely at Bil- 

 nev ; but his success for the two last years has been so bad 

 that he leaves it off, convinced that the broad-cast answers 

 better, ^f he drills early, the poppy gets greatly a-head ; 

 if late, the frosts turn the drilled wheat out of the ground; 

 by ploughing the seed in he avoids the latter evil. 



Mr. Repton, at Oxnead, dibbles his wheat, as he 

 cannot drill it on one furrow. 



Mr. Reeves, of Heveringland, drills at six inches. 



Many drill about Reepham ; the praclice answers best 

 on light land ; and Mr. Bircham is of opinion that the 

 layers should be broke previously for it. 



Mr. Johnson, of Thurning, drilled forty acres of 

 wheat, two years agOj on a whole fallow : the crop very 

 good. 



Mr. England, of Binham, drills all at nine indies. 



Mr. Reeve, at Wighton, at nine inches: he thinks 

 dibbling a great improvement on the broad cast husbandry, 

 but that drilling exceeds it; and he never saw greater 

 burthens of wheat than what has been produced by diills 

 at nine inches. He had this year four good waggon loads 

 an acre, from land so managed. I viewed his stubbles, 

 and found them beautiful spectacles of masterly manage- 

 ment ; I rode cross and cross a field of nine acres, and do 

 not think nine weeds were to be found in them : and all 

 bis wheat stubbles, on examining the intervals, I found 

 in a perfedly friable and pulverized state. 



Mr. 



