WHEAT. 2go 



I am able, of the manner in which I drilled (if I may be 

 allowed the expression) the wheat you saw. 

 *' 1 am, Sir, 



*' Your obedient Servant, 



*' ST. JOHN PRIEST." 



From the preceding notes, it appears that drilling wheat 

 has made a remarkable progress in Norfolk. In the north 

 western distri(ft, amongst the great and intelligent farmers 

 who have rendered their county famous, it is become so 

 established a praftice, that it no longer admits any ques- 

 tion of its utility, on a soil like theirs. In some smaller 

 cases, dibbling is preferred ; nor has it been sufficiently 

 ascertained which of these methods will give the greater 

 crop. The inquiry, however, is not of consequence in 

 North-west Norfolk, for they have no population equal 

 to dibbling becoming general : and,a circumstance which 

 tends much to impede this husbandry, is the imperfe6t 

 manner in which it is performed, for the sake of making 

 great earnings ; this has, in many instances, given a pre- 

 ference to drilling. 



Depth. — iVIr. Thurtell, near Yarmouth, has found 

 two inches, which are commonly half way through the 

 IJag, to be the best depth in dibbling. 



Mr. Ev ERiT, of Caistor, in Fleg, thinks tliat the deeper 

 it is dibbled the better ; two inches, to chuse. 



Mr. Syele, of South Walsham, finds two inches, in 

 dibbling, the best depth. 



Mr. Ma KG ATE SON, of North Walsham, prefers one 

 inch ; and three or four kernels in a hole. 



Mr. Dyele, ofScotter, remarked, that there is never 

 any fear of the seed being dibbled too deep, even if through 

 the flag: they plough only three or four inches. 



Mr, j-'ALGRAVE, at Cohishal, dibbles two inches. 



u 3 Mr. 



