Report upon Mr. Newberry s Dihhlivg- Machine. 317 
strength of the straw. The next year I had it on my own farm 
here, alter ch)ver, 1 1 acres of ground, went across tlie furrow 
without harrowing, about I ^ bushel of seed per acre. Drilled 
one strip across the ground — dibbled the next — sowed the next — 
and so on alternately. My neighbours soon saw a marked differ- 
ence in the plants ; and during the summer the general remark 
was, that one piece looked as if mucked, the other not. At 
harvest the result was a decided superiority. 
Last autumn I had greatly improved the machine, and had 
numerous applications to plant, which 1 did for any one, at 1^ 
bushel per acre, in small strips about 2 or 3 acres, in a ground 
where the drill was used on all kinds of soils ; and the result is a 
superiority over the drill, which I am sure no one would credit 
unless they saw it. In the spring I planted barley, oats, and a 
few beans : the 5 pecks of seed beat everything I have seen of 
oats. I have had many gentlemen to see the crops, and all say 
they would not have believed it unless they had seen it. As we 
have gentlemen, members of your Society, living in the neigh- 
bourhood, I should be most happy to show the crops to them, or 
any person whom the Society may appoint, or to give any further 
information on the subject. 
And remain. Sir, 
Yours, very respectfully, 
W. Neavberry. 
Hook Norton, May 2ith, 1843. 
Report from Mr. Langston and Others upon the foregoinr/ Letter. 
Sir, — I shall feel obliged by your laying before the Council the 
Report which I have drawn up at their request. I asked four of 
the most intelligent farmers to accompany me when I examined the 
crops planted by Mr. Newberry's machine ; and, with their ap- 
probation, I have added their signatures to my own. 
I remain. 
Yours truly, 
J. H. Langston. 
Sarsden, November 14//(. 
We, the undersigned, have at your request examined the effect of 
Mr. Newberry's dibbling-machine, and have no hesitaticm in re- 
porting the superiority of the wheat-crops where the seed had 
been planted by that instrument over those which have been 
sown broadcast, or drilled. We had many opportunities of com- 
paring, side by side, the produce of these several modes of treat- 
