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^ both the poplar and lajxh will have places 
assigned for them. 
This gentleman recommends ‘ the setting^ 
or dibbling' our wheat crops by hand, instead 
of sowing it broad-cast. The experienced 
Secretary to the Board, at the Duke' of Bed-^ 
ford's sheep-shearing at Woburn in 17^8, 
made the most public declaration, that he 
was perfe6ily convinced it would be more for. 
the public good, as well as that of individual 
farmers, to sow all our grain broad-cast. He 
was particularly pointed against drillings and 
consequently against dibbling, or setting, 
which is only a slower and more expensive 
mode of drilling, and cannot be preferred, 
except upon land immediately broken up 
from turf. 
Though we approve the pradfice of drill- 
ing and setting wheat by hand to a certain 
extent, we do not coincide with all the argu- 
ments of Mr. Brooke in favour of the prac- 
tice, and particularly for a more extended 
employment of the poor in the produclioii 
of grain ; because all the extraordinary labour 
