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Article XXIX. 



A Continuation of Experiments in the Drill Hujbandry. 



[By Sir John Anstruther, Bart.] 



Experiment of Drilled Barley — Crop, 1786. 



IN 1785, 3 A. 2 R. 20 P. of Englifh 



■*• meafure were drilled with fome Lincolnfhire 

 barley. Part of this was one acre, upon which the 

 experiment of tranfplanted wheat, and dibbled wheat 

 and barley, was made laft year. The remainder 

 was after carrots and cabbages, and as it was not 

 manured for thefe, it had a top-drcfling of dung. 

 Upon that were drilled 4^ bufhels of Winchefter 

 meafure -, thefe were drilled after the plough, by a 

 man following the plough, and dropping the feed 

 by hand -, a fecond plough followed and covered 

 this ; and the third furrow was fown and covered in 

 the fame manner : by this plan the rows were at 1 8 

 inches diuance; thefe were hand-hoed once at the 

 expence of 10s. The produce was 147 bufhels, 

 which is nearly 32 for one, and is 401 bufhels per 

 Englifh acre. 



The reft of the field was fown broadcaft at the 

 fame time, with the fame grain; the fame quantity 

 of this was meafured, viz. 3 A. 2 R. 20 P. and the 



proportion 



