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In July and Auguft, viewed the experiments, 

 and found a high wind fome days before had broken 

 down a great deal of the drilled wheat ; and that, 

 in the horfe-hoed, the earth had not been properly 

 ploughed up to the rows, and as the earth was fine 

 and loofe, it had fo fallen down from the roots that 

 the plants had little fupport from the earth on one 

 fide, and the weight of ears with the high winds 

 had made them fall over, by reafon of that want of 

 fupport. The earth was hoed up to the rows, 

 which I found fupported the (terns from falling 

 over. The very dry feafon, of the froft in winter, 

 or fome other caufe, had deftroyed a great deal of 

 the drilled wheat, as well as the dibbled and trans- 

 planted. In many places there was from one to 

 two feet deftroyed : thefe had been filled up by 

 tranfplanting the 21 ft of April, but many of them 

 died ; or were fmall plants and fmall ears, and not 

 above three or four ears to a plant. 



There appeared at this time no difference be- 

 tween what was tranfplanted in October and No- 

 vember, or between thole from the ked in May 

 and Auguft, But the two ridges tranfplanted the 

 31ft of March was the worit crop, and much 

 greener than that tranfplanted before winter, ha- 

 ving but nine ortenftems on the beft plants ; but 



many 



