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appearance than by comparing them with good 

 crops of other years, as the broad- caft crops of 

 wheat in general were very thin and bad this year 5 . 

 One thing was to the difad vantage of thefe experi- 

 ments: — they were made upon a part of that which 

 was in drilled barley laft crop; and fome of the 

 barley had been fhaked out, which fprung up early, 

 and made it necefTary to hoe it early to deftroy it. 

 Of the tranfplanted, a great many of the plants had 

 1 6 ears ; and if a crop were equally good, the pro- 

 duce would be very great, even allowing each to" 

 produce on an average eight ears, as each plant has 

 a fpace of nine inches fquare, this is 77440 plants, 

 and at the above average of the drilled at 6 1 grains 

 per ear, and 880 grains per ounce, the produce 

 would be 44 bufhelsj therefore it appears the ears 

 were not above four per plant. 



The fmall produce of the tranfplanted, it may be 

 fuppofed, might have been occafioned by being 

 badly planted 5 but the dibbled was worfe, that was 

 not liable to that accident. And we do not find 

 the planted wheat, where practifed, produced fo 

 great crops as might be expected. 



Whether thefe methods are more liable to ac- 

 cidents than the broadcaft, experience and more 

 extenfive practice may difcover. 



Thefe 



