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Had a fccond been made, Mr. Miller thinks the 

 number of plants would have amounted to 2000 

 infread of 500, and the produce thereby much 

 enlarged. 



The ground was a light blaekim foil, upon a 

 gravelly bottom, and confequently a bad foil for 

 wheat. One half of the ground was well dunged, 

 the other half had no manure. There was how- 

 ever not any difference difcoverable in the vigour, 

 or growth, or produce, of the plants. 



Article XXVII. 



On the Quantity of Seed-Grain umiecejfarily 

 /own in the Broadcajl Method, 



[By a Gentleman Farmer in Hertfordshire.] 

 Gentlemen, 



nr^HE obliging notice you took of my former 

 -*- letter encourages me to addrefs you a fecond 

 time, but on a different fubjedt; to wit, that of 

 the quantity of feed-grain unnecefTarily fown in 

 the broadcaft method. This is too much over- 

 looked by farmers in general, who, though when 

 told of it, admit the fact, yet neither it fee nor its 

 confequences in their full magnitude. 



When 



