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Mr. Drozier, of Rudham — To raise a great crop of 

 Vfheat, how would you put it in — would you drill it? — 

 No. I would dibble. Mr. Drozier, last harvest, had 

 dibbled and drilled; the dibbled beat. In 1800 he had 

 none drilled ; but in 1802, I heard that he drilled again. 



Mr. Harikg, of Ash Wicken, put in wheat, dibbled 

 one row on a flag, and it beat the drill. 



Mr. Holland, of Bircham, in 1799, lost half his 

 crop of barley by the drill ; and in 1800, his drilled wheat 

 was much too thin: he then determined to drill no more. 

 His stubbie did not give any signs of bad management. 

 He remarked, that he has seen no drilled stubbles that do 

 not shew gaps much more numerous than ought ever to be 

 seen, 



Mr. Whiting, of Fring, has been long in the prac- 

 tice of drilling, which he prefers much to broad-ca'^t sow- 

 ing: drills all his corn. Has a high opinion of dibbling, 

 and for produce, knows not which to prefer ; but drilling 

 admits the hoe, which is a material point. 



Mr. Bradfield, of Heacham, never drills. As to 

 saving a ploughing by drilling barley, he will not admit it 

 to be a saving ; it is an earth that pays well. One-horse 

 ploughs for putting in barley on one earth, the best instru- 

 ment that has been invented. He also observes, that in a 

 Jong course of experience, he had never seen a thin crop 

 of wheat, but if any mildew happened, it was sure to he 

 struck: drilled wheat is the thinnest of all, and most sub- 

 je<5l to mildew. In 1800, all the drilled crops he viewed 

 were much mildewed. His neighbohr, Mr. Norton, 

 had in 1799, ** ^^^Y thin drilled crop ; and in i8cx) h« 

 drilled none. 



In 1792, I found the chief part of Mr. Overman's 

 farm drilled, and in very beautiful order and cleanness ; his 



stubbles 



