DIB 
ebtained, has not, however, been fully fhewn ay the experi- 
ments of intelligent cultivators ; but it has been fuppofed in 
rs {pe & to wheat, to be from ia ir to fix bufhels in the acre, 
in the Report of Agriculture for Norfolk, and the refult 
of an experiment, made with the view of afcertaining the dif- 
ference in the produce between fowing and fetting barley, 
proves it to be fill greater in that fort of grain, the experi- 
menter having had twelve bushels on t 
oole eftimates, or fingle experiments fays 
the author, cannot, however, be depended upon; but 
{carcely be doub ted, that the quantity of produce i is ee 
in the method of dibbling the feeds, than fowing it broad- 
eaft. In the quality of the grain, there is likewife a fuperi- 
ority : abe wheat aud barley produced in th's way are fatd to 
not only more free from wae but larger in the rare 
and eoniequently ’ weighing conliderably heavier. It is 
en the feed is put into the foil in ee 
Eand when cal aa eee 
may be, may have a fice ror ity In 
both from the piants, in fuch iA es being lefs crowded 
toge ther, and their becoming, in confequence, more ftrong 
and vigorous, and from the air and fua being more fully 
admitted, by which they become more equaliy, as well as 
more alge ripened. It is probable too, thet in fu 
i) 
or stedac of 
more effectually, and more oni perform ed. 
another reafon, that, in particular inftances, has been fug- 
gelted as the caufe of the quality of the grain in this mode 
of fowing being fuperior ; which is that of wheat being free 
in their grow whereas, when fown in t 
od, muc the muft of courfe fall into crevices 
and openings between the furrow-flices, where they mult be 
gvcatly impeded in their vegetation by weeds and other 
caufes, ‘This fhews likewife the abfurdity of putting wheat 
crops in by the broad-caft method upon {uch preparations of 
the land,’ 
In the Norfolk Report onthe ftate of agriculture, feveral 
minutes on this practice are introduced by Mr. Young, 
which it would feem that there are two methods of perform- 
ing the bufinefs ; thofe of putting one, acd two rows on eac 
on 
This they find better than two rows; and to be much 
{uperior to drilling. The crops are afterwards well boed, 
and generally prove very beneficial. Itis fuggefted by fome 
farmers that this practice fhould only be had recourfe to 
while the feafon fuits, either for wheat or oats, both of which 
are there dibbled, as when the land is wet and cold, the wa- 
ter is apt to Se in the holes, and deftroy the vegetative 
ahh of t 
many peliee places’ in the county, two rows on the flag, 
often as near as t 
e. In thi 
ss 
QO 
“~ 
o 
x to feven — but in 
c T is fup- 
ofed by fome to be belt performed by women wa a proper 
perfon to fuperintend them, as they ar re obedient and 
manageable. The expence is fly from nine fhillings 
to ten fhillings and fixpence the 
It is fuppofed by Mr. eat cor one bufhel of feed 
the bufinefs. 
e greater reulsity of the pant the hoeing 
the it ma . 
DIB 
would be fufficient. He made an experiment in the view 
of forming a comparifon of the bet manner of executing 
The ufual mode is, to § read the two rows 
on the flag in fuch a manner, that they are liable to be too 
near the feams ; bur he direéted the dibblers to keep their 
eagle as ise together as they could work them, fetting 
the very nea h ot of 
very beautiful appea 
w is, however, inclined to dey ppofe a good proportion of 
fea necefary, as he has ne nee a good crop of wheat 
that was ay ; Bette: its ene more liable S ihe ees 
of the mildev 
The whole a the obfervations would appear 40 fhew, that 
the ges is not to be pur ued merely as faving feed, as 
was {uggefted ; but from the bufinefs being p 
Formed in a more advantageous way than by other methods, 
It is, indeed, remarked by Mr a ee that it ie 1 
ellence, ‘ that equal crops a 
in any other way ;”? but that “three g 
be pur in every hole; for, on various ne enon, he has 
fou.d, that a fingle ane in a hole, = alr mkt always pro- 
ears faint ear, ee ever a good o 
s probable, from what has ae been remarked 
vpon chi fubjeét, that a fingle row on a flag may be the 
oft proper where hand-werding is nk “Pried 
bat that where this is neceflary, two rows ont my 
be a more advantageous method, and that more re one 
grain fhould, in general, be put in.each hols. 
The advantages which have, on the whole, been chiefly 
looked to in-this mode of putting in crops, are thofe of 
faving feed; having the lands, where inclined to be light, 
fufficiently trodden $ 3 the kecping of the crop cleau, rendered 
lefs difficult ; and the employing of anumber of women and 
childr out of work. Befides, 
being. lefs apt to fhed or drop out of the ear. See Driun 
and Driti-hufbandry. 
DIBE, or Pesce, in Geography, a town of Egyots 
on the coaft of the Mcdi:terranean: 18 miles S.E. of Dae 
miletta. 
DIBI, a town of Egypt, on the W. fide of the Nile ; 
miles S.E. of eee ae 
DIBLA r Disratuaim, in Ancient Geography, 
a town oe Jord, at the foot of mount Nebo or Pit- 
h. 
me 
DIB can a town of Macedonia, in the country of 
the Learn Ptolem 
D a town of Judea, in the tribe of Gad, given 
and afterwards furrendered to 
Enufebius fays, that it 
It was probably the 
n-Gad, an — of the Ficbrews. 
a town in Judah, the aii 
Nehem. x?. 2 
to this tribe by Mofes, 
og y {pring 
a. “obliged the inaieges to furrender : 30 miles N. of 
Ackrida. 
DIBS, a name given at Aleppo to the infpiffated juice of 
the eae which has much the appearance, fays Ruffel, 
vol. 1 2.) of coarfe haney, but is of a finer confittence. 
Ik is much ued by the inhabitants of Aleppo ; is ii 
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