356 DRILL HUSBANDRY. 



Mr. MuNNTNGs drills his poor gravels vvitli his bar- 

 row-drill. I viewed his turnips at eighteen inches : a very 

 regular and' well executed crop. 



Mr. Hart, of Biliingford, in 1802, drilled turnips at 

 six inches, cutting up in part of the field every other row, 

 and in part cutting away two rows and leaving one: part 

 also broad-cast, for compaiison ; done with Cook's ma- 

 chine, and part horse-hocd with his tools ; part with Mr.- 

 MuNNiNGs' expanding hoe-plough. Last year he drilled 

 all his barley, and it answered better than the broad-cast ; 

 and this year all his corn is drilled, except the ollonds ; 

 these drill rolled, a pradlice pretty general here : but the 

 small farmers dibble. 



It is gradually coming in around Dereham, md dibbling 

 rather going out, for want of dependence on the droppers. 



I viewed Mr. Collison's farm at East Bilney, and 

 found several crops drilled, -which made a very fine appear- 

 ance : one field oi wheot by the barn promises to produce 

 ten coombs an acre ; some barley also very fine, and the 

 crops in general clean : all at nine inches, and the wheat 

 horse-hoed thrice; barley twice if no seeds, but with them 

 not at all, as the i^eeds are covered by the harrow which 

 follows the drill: Mr. Collison, however, has horse- 

 hocd in some seeds, and did not fail. He drills seven to 

 ten pecks of seed-barley. Mr. Collison prefers the drill 

 very much : he forms his lands to be worked at a bout 

 of the drill, the horse walking only in the furrows, 

 and the same in horse-hoeing; a point he justly esteems 

 essential for all heavy or ticklish land. I put the ques- 

 tion home to an intelligent labourer who has worked 40 

 years on the farm, and he assured me that if he had a 

 farm of his own, he would drill all the wheat, and 

 horse-hoe it likewise, for when land is bound in the 

 spring, to break the surface makes the plants grow well ; 



but 



