DIBBLING. 
be a and cheaply performed. Bufh-harrowing i is fuppofed 
of very little-uf 
the ae and in the frit fhower of rain that follows, moft of 
them will be feen, and much of the wheat be {welled out of 
them. In the praGice of wane: peafe and beans as done 
in Goucery fhire and Middiefex, the method is chiefly this, 
the work being performed by wom 
ences 3 in fome places, in rows 
acrofs, but more frequently along the ridges. Some fetters 
oe a line to dire& them in fo orming the rows at equal dif- 
ufe fs r the line as neceflary. 
The fetters begin each at the end of a row, and making holes 
at the diftance of about two inches from each other, and 
about the fame depth, depofit one pea or bean in every hole, 
and thus proceed, till the work be compleated. The diftance 
between the rows is {eldom lefs than ten, and in few inftan- 
ces, more than fourteen inches. The quantity of feed necef- 
fary is from two aad a half to three buthels, according to the 
diftance of the rows; and the price of fetting, from 3s. 64. 
to 4s. 6d. the acre. ~ When the os of the field is com- 
pieted, it is gently harrowed, in order to cover the feed, 
and the crop is repeatedly hand-hoed a erwards, as occafion 
If,”? Mr. Donaldfon obferves, * the o whic 
the Gloucetterfhire farmers have in view in sao cnae this 
practice, be to furnifh employment for the pears the crops 
o fupport of the jufine 
principles on which it was adopted, and of which thofe 
who are in the habit of fetting wheat cannot avail 
themfelves. If an extraordinary number of peeple be 
not employed, thefe plruae hoeings muft take up a con- 
fidcrable period, and will not, in ordinary cafes, be finifhed 
I the indultrious poor ar 
thus furnifhed with almoft uninterrupted employment in the 
fields for fix or fev onths iota — the pom 
from long habite of idlenefs, have bec erous, proflt- 
pate, and ufelefs members of {ociety, ah Gat) be eenidemd 
n every point of view advantareous; while, under oth 
circomitances, this method of managing bean. ares might be 
impraGticable, from the rate of wages, and the peo le being 
fully employed in manufactures ; or if praéticable, neither 
benefic: al to the community nor to individuals. Where thefe 
practifed, dri 
every fecond or aoe hird 
the crop, will be found a 
nes Be ‘aft 
. Ie has been remarked, that it will obvioufly be ne- 
ecffary with thefe crops, to ie larger {paces between the 
rows, and greater diftances in them, which muit render a 
larger porticn of ground capable of being planted in a given 
time. Wi.-a the chiidren engaged in performing the work 
of droppin, the {ced into the holes, are on'y able to drop into 
one hole, fix are required to follow one dibbier; when capable 
of dropping into two holes, three are fuffieient or one 
dibbler three holes, two are 
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am 
en= 
dibbling, with a fuitable apie of droppers, are confidered 
as fufficient to work in one party, whitch is a much better 
practice than that of alley ioe the whole to work together, 
as the feed is fet with much greater regularity and exacinefs. 
The expence of performing the 
nine or ten 
the ha y the 
ufe of machinery, fuch as rollers of the diili, and foiked kind. 
The manual praétice is, however, to be preferred, where 
labourers can be procured. ‘This circumftance of ufing ime 
plements for the purpofe of putting in the corn, has pro 7 
led fome to fuppofe that the practice of eibplt ing was mo 
on the decline, than is pies really the cafe 
It may be obferved that the kind of foils on which this 
method of putting in the feed bas been praétifed with the 
moft advantage, is the light and mixed fandy, and thofe of 
a loamy quality. On the deep ftiff clays, it is feldom had 
recourfe to. The sibel broken up lands of almoft all de- 
aaa ve in fome cafes a ow planted in this 
arious en 
the d in this way w ith. ae “ich as thofe of 
‘heat, barley, oats, peafe, beans. and vet ~ me _ Ba 
penal al the of crop for which it is 
mplo Oat ts may In many be beneically idibbled 
om leys., 
But it is tl by the author ae Suffolk Report, that 
barley can feldom be dibbled, by reafon the land id fo dr 
April, that the holes will run in, aud not ftand open to receive 
e feed. 
Inthe more fouthern parts of the kingdom, the moft fa-« 
vourable feafon for putting in wheat in this mode has been 
found to be the latter end cf S:ptember, or the jaa la of 
Odtober ; = moaths of March and April for barley a 
oat-crops, a r peafe and beans as early in the Gis 
months as thie ioe of the feafon wili aan of its being 
don 
ct 
ipa 
With regard to the quantity of feed that is required in 
this method of putting it into the ground, it is confiderably 
lefs than where the br caft, or perhaps even the dnill- 
fyftem is followed; but the favings muft conftantly depend 
7 a gicat degree upon the fteadinefs and accuracy of the 
bo employed in dropping oe feed, and the number of the 
s thai are put Into each hole. It has been fuggetfted by 
an experienced cultivator in this hel ae ees the drop- 
are properly attended to, the faving in wheat may be 
fee fix pec ck sin the acre, in barley sk andin peafe ee 
vetches about four 
It is tated that the number of grains that are Cepofited in 
each holeis diferent, in differen: circumiftances, but the mot 
general pragiice, and that which has been found the mot 
fuecefsful, if, three or four for grain. crops, and one or two 
for thofe of peafe, beans, and others of the fame kind. Itis 
evident, however, it is fuppofed, that they fhouid neither be 
fet too ‘thickly, nor In too thin a ssa as in the former 
cafe, the sa may be drawn *P and the crops, in confe e- 
weak and un 
rond 
a taken in the putting in of 
Phe feed, there is moltly a coniderable eee of produce in 
aoe way of fowing over the otber 
The exaé amount ‘of the ‘aidcoul produce that is thus 
obtained, 
