362- ARABLE SYSTEM. 



Mr. Petre, of Westwick, puts in about 100 acres of 

 wheat, of which he sows and drills 80, and dibbles 20. 



Mr. Johnson, of Tliurning, makes tiie same obser- 

 vation on the ill effe*5ls of dibbling as Mr. Burton. The 

 great girls do not drop so well as children, nor is the work 

 so well done as formerly : they now drop between the 

 fore-finger and thumb, which is much inferior to doing it 

 between the tore and middle finger. 



Dibbling is common around Wighton, for wheat and 

 pease; and Mr. Reeve thinks it a great improvement 

 upon the broad-cast husbandry, but that drilling is a step 

 further. 



There is at Snettisham mucli dibbling, pease and wheat 

 on flag; and Mr. Styleman thinks it never will be 

 abandoned, as there arc seasons that do not suit drilling. 



In Marshland, the pradlice obtains every where for 

 wheat on clover, and some on clean stubbles ; lOs. 6d. an 

 acre. It increases. 



Pra£lised about Downham, and with good success. — 

 Mr. Saffory dibbles all he can, and thinks it a grea^ 

 improvement. 



SECT. XXII. ON THE NORFOLK ARABLE SYS- 

 TEM. 



For the last four or five and thirty years that I have 

 examined We§t Norfolk with the eye of a farmer, the 

 change in the tillage system has not been great. At that 

 period the course was, i. Turnips; 2. Barley; 3. Grasses 

 for two, or, in a few cases, three years ; 4. White-corn ; 

 on the better soils wheat ; on others, rye, &c. The only- 

 change that has occurred has been in the grasses : the va- 

 riation. 



