31G On the Agricultural Improvements of Lincolnshire. 
race of men. I met with many who had mounted their nags, and 
quitted their homes purposely to examine other parts of the king- 
dom, and done it with enlarged views, and to the benefit of their 
own cultivation." They have visited other districts, and they have 
since so managed their own farms that these deserve to be viewed 
in return. Practical farmers may jierceive defects which escaped 
my observation; but if they see Lincoln Heath, or the Wolds, 
either in harvest or later in winter, when the sheep are in the fold 
and the cattle in the yard, I do not think that they will be disap- 
pointed. They will see the result of great expenditure on the 
part of the landlord as of corresponding energy on that of the 
tenant ; and if other owners of desolate places should be en- 
couraged by the example to fit them for man's use in like 
manner, thereby enriching their families, multiplying farmers, 
strengthening and, one may say, enlarging their country, above 
all raising the weekly dole of the labourer, by the only means of 
raising it, namely, by ploughing up fresh land on which the la- 
bourer's arm will be wanted, I earnestly hope that on whatever 
moors their buildings may be reared or their fields be enclosed, 
they may be no worse seconded in their praiseworthy efforts to 
pioneer for posterity than Lord Yarborough and Mr. Chaplin at 
Brocklesby and at Temple Bruer. 
XXIL — Report on Mr. Neivberrys Dihhlincj-Machine ; from 
J. H. Langston, M.P., and the other Referees. 
To the Secretary. 
Sir, — I am desirous to lay before the Society a statement of par- 
ticulars relating to a dibbling-machine invented by myself, which 
statement I should be most happy to corroborate by facts if the 
Society would depute a person to view the crops planted by myself 
with the dibbler, as well as by others in this neighbourhood. 
The first crop planted by it was wheat, four years since, 1^ 
bushels per acre, wet poor land in Essex, about 3 acres of ground. 
It was said to be a better crop than the land usually produced ; 
but as there was no other wheat planted but what the dibbler 
did. we could not form a comparative advantage. The next was 
in Essex the following year: rather heavy land, about 1^ bushel 
per acre : done in wet, the plants looked thin all the winter, but 
at spring and during the summer showed a superiority over the 
drilled. It was at harvest 4 to 6 inches higher than the other, the 
car much longer, no under-corn, and stood erect, owing to the 
