35$ DRILL HUSBANDRY. 



No drilling in Fleg that I could hear of. Very little in 

 BlovvfielJ and South Walsham, but it is coming in, and 

 Mr. Syble is clear that it will spread. 



It cannot be said that drilling is quite unknown in tiic 

 hundred of Happing, but I heard of very lit;le, and saw 

 none: a man last year travelled with a drill, for drilling 

 at 28. 6d. an acre, and some farmers employed him. Some 

 farmers use the drill roller. 



Very little pra£lised about North Walsham. Mr. Mar- 

 GATESON approves much of Cook's diill. Mr. Lub- 

 bock, of Lammas, and Mr Repton, of Oxnead, arc 

 the only drillers ; they pradlice it much. 



Mr. Palgrave, of Coltishal, has drilled wheat, bar- 

 ley, and oats, for 1 7 years ; has tried four and a half and 

 six inch rows, but finds nine the best for all. The merit 

 of the husbandry he thinks consists in the equal depth at 

 "which the seed is deposited, and were this equally efFe6led, 

 does not conceive there would be any difference in the 

 crops, whether put in by dibbling, drilling or broad- 

 cast. 



Mr. Reeves, of Hcveringland, has drilled most of Iiis 

 corn for three years, and is clearly convinced of the merits 

 of the pratSlice, and determined to continue it. 



Mr. England, of Binham, has drilled all sorts of 

 grain for five years past, and is perfe6lly satisfied with the 

 pra6tice; nor has he the lea^t doubt of the superiority of 

 it to the broad-cast method ; there is little dibbling in his 

 neighbourhood, drilling having superseded it. 



Mr. Reeve, of Wighion, has been a driller four 

 years, and for all sorts of corn : he has no doubt, and 

 makes not the least question of its superiority to the broad- 

 cast husbandry. I viewed his stubbles with singular plea- 

 surcj and a more beautiful spedlacle of cleanness I never 



beheld 



