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the 8th of Auguft a fingle plant was taken up and 

 irated into eighth s, and each part planted 



ratcly; thefe plants having pud icd out feveral 

 fide-moots, by about the middle of September 

 fome of ^hem were then taken up and divided, 

 and the reft of them, between that time and the 

 middle of October; this fecond diviiion produced 

 iixty-feven plants. Thefe plants remained thro* 

 the winter, and another diviiion of them, made 

 between the middle of March and the I2th of 

 April, produced five hundred plants. They were 

 then divided no further, but permitted to remain. 

 The plants were in general ftronger than any of 

 the wheat in the fields. Some of them produced 

 upwards of one hundred ears from a fingle root. 

 Many of the ears meafured feven inches in length, 

 and contained between fixty and feventy grains. 



The whole number of ears which, by the procefs 

 above-mentioned, were produced from one grain 

 of wheat, was 21,109, which yielded three pecks 

 and three quarters of clear corn, the weight of 

 which was 471b. 70Z.; and from a calculation ma 

 by counting the number of grains in an ounce, 

 hole number of grains was about 576,840. 



By this account wc find, that there was only one 



general divifion of the plants made in the fpring. 



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