IMPROVED ACORX DIBBLE, $£f 



\ I, the conical roof, the lower part of which project? 

 sufficiently over the body of the rick, to cover it from wet, 

 and in this roof, each roand of sheaves is to be placed so 

 as to cover the ears of the sheaves below, and gradually rise 

 to nearly a point, over which a bundle, containing two or, 

 three sheaves, with the butt ends upwards, and tied together^ 

 cover the centre or uppermost point of the rick. 



V. 



Improvement in the Acorn Dibble ; by Mr. Charles 

 Waistell, of High Holborn.* 

 Sir, 



JlN consequence of information, that Government wanted Dibble for 

 intelligence respecting the best mode of dibbling acorns, I acorns « 

 have made an improvement on the acorn dibble in the So- 

 ciety's repository, which I presume will answer well the de- 

 sired purpose. I therefore send herewith a drawing of it, 

 requesting you will have the goodness to lay it before the 

 Society of Arts &c. 



Thorn bushes and thickets are the natural guardians of Bushes and 



young oaks from the depredations of cattle of all kinds, on thlckets the 

 r- i l • t» natural guar. 



iorestsand other grounds on which they pasture. By means dians of young 



of this implement, acorns may be deposited in the interior of oaks * 

 bushes, as welj as in open grounds, with rapidity and accu- 

 racy. And presuming that such an implement would be of 

 great utility to many individuals, and also to Government, 

 1 wish much to have it made known as generally as possible 

 among those who are most likely to profit by it; and which 

 I think may be best effected by the Society of Arts, &c. giv- 

 ing an engraving of it jn their next volume; provided they 

 concur with me in thinking it may be the means of rearing 

 an increased number of oaks, to promote which every possi- 

 ble facility should be given. 



Permit me on this occasion to observe, that many propri- pj ant - 

 elors of landed property are not sufficiently aware, that a estates not suf- 

 greater or less proportion of almost every estate would, if ju- *^ L at " 



•Trans, ©f the Spc of Arts, vol. XXIX, p. 60. 



di.ciously 



