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but as to drilling barley he spoke very doubtfully, but 

 said it was less liable to be /aid: and in a dry time it 

 comes best drilled. 



Drilling on light lands which are laid flat, is no difficult 

 operaclon, but on strong, tenacious, clung soils, it is no 

 such very easy matter, without much attention. The Rev. 

 Dixon Hoste, however, at Goodwick, has efFe6led it 

 with a commendable regularity : one method he practises, 

 is that of drilling athwart the ridges j to prepare which he 

 sometimes trench-ploughs. 



Drilling is very little praflised in the neighbourhood of 

 Norwich. Mr. Crowe had a machine of Mr. Cook's, 

 which he gave to Mr. Sillis, of Hertford Bridges, but 

 he never used it. Mr. Crowe is so satisfied of the use 

 of dibbling, that he desires nothing better. 



Many drills in the vicinity of Thelton, a heavy land 

 distri<5l, and much used of late. 



Mr. Kerrich, of Harleston, drills or sets all his corn. 

 Many drills in Earsham hundred ; and several farmers drill 

 for their neighbours at 2s. 6d. an acre. There is, how- 

 ever, as much dibbling as ever ; the drilling having chiefly 

 been substituted for broad- cast sowing. 



Mr. Burton, of Lnngley, approves much of drilling, 

 and has seen Cook's machine beat dibbling : he, however, 

 does not drill himself, observing that he is absent too often. 



Air. Drake, of Billingforci, near Scole, drills both 

 wheat and barley, he has three fields of drilled barley this 

 year, with part broad-case ; and the latter beats in all ifhree: 

 his drilled wheat good, and he prefers the drill for that 

 crop much more than for barley. 



Mr. Thurtell, near Yarmouth, has for two years 

 drilled almost all his barley, by that incans saving one 

 ploughing. 



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