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His drilled turnips were at least equal to those sown 

 broad-cast. 



Dr. HiNTON does not drill spring corn, as it is not a 

 prac5lice, except out of course, on account of the seeds, 

 which will not do in drilled crops : has been tried by others, 

 and the crops failed ; but for winter corn, better than 

 broad-cast on sandy loams ; but it will not do on strong 

 wheat soils as a general pra£llce. 



Mr. Salter, at Winborough, whose soil is a wet loam 

 on a clay bottom, which requires draining, does not drill, 

 as he thinks his land too stifF and difficult for it ; but dib- 

 bles largely. 



In discourse with Mr. Salter, on the drill hus- 

 bandry, and inquiring how far it could be made ap- 

 plicable to his difficult land (note, however, that he 

 has several fields, the surface of which is an unquestion- 

 ed sand, upon a strong under-stratum, yet called strong 

 land fields), he gave it decidedly as his opinion, that it 

 would not do : vet he understands drilling, and has prac- 

 tised it at Snarehill. He appealed to his vast crops of dib- 

 bled wheat, and immense ones of barley, this year, 1802, 

 promising nine or ten coombs an acre of the former, and 

 fifteen, sixteen, and even more of the latter, and demanded 

 whether drilling could, or did any where beat them ? A 

 respeflable party of Norfolk farmers were present, and 

 two drillers among them, but they were silent, and all 

 equally struck with the uncommon crops we were then 

 examining. 



The Rev. Mr. Munnings, at Gorget, is upon a most 

 unkind sharp flinty gravel ; red gravels are usually good 

 soils, but his are blackish, from a mixture of black, sand; 

 nearly the worst of all soils: on this land he drills turnips 

 at eighteen inches ; also oats at nine Indies ; pease at nine 

 and twelve ; arid once he tried wheat. 



A a 2 Mr, 



