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able in the produce, as well as the feeds through the 

 i ft, ad, 5th, 6th, 7th and 8th rows. Some trivial 

 variations do not difturb the general rule, . which 

 fcems to be fufficiently eftablifhed by the general 

 rcfult of the firft fix rows. 



§.IV. 



Of all the experiments in agriculture that I have 



ever feen recorded, that in queftion exhibits the 



mod interefting refult, whether we confider it with 



refpect to the principle from which the phenomena 



originate, or its great importance in agriculture 



as a practical art. . In this laft refpect, indeed, it 



promifes to be of the utmoft utility, becaufe by it 



we are taught, that without any alteration in the foil 



or culture, but merely in confequence of a proper 



attention to the ftate of the feed to be planted, a 



crop nine times as weighty may be obtained in one 



cafe as in another. Is it not aftonifhing, that a cir- 



cumflance of fuch amazing influence lhould not 



have been difcovered by accident long before this 



time? And does not this afford a moft convincing 



proof of the neceffity of fubjecling the common 



modes of hufbandry to the teft of actual experiment, 



in order to obtain a rational degree of certainty, in- 



ftead of thofe conjectural opinions that individuals 



are fo apt to rely upon with uniufpecting confidence ? 



That 



