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But from the number of ears counted per yard, 

 being 113, if we allow 40 grains per ear, and 800 

 per ounce, (allowing them fmall) the yard of fingle 

 rows would produce 5 ounces 6-ioths, or at the 

 rate of 35 bufhels per acre, were the field all 

 equally good. 



Nov. ill. Two ridges, or i-8th of an acre, was 

 planted with wheat from feed fown in the garden 

 the 15 th of July J each plant was at nine inches 

 diflance every way. The produce was 3 bufliels, 

 2 pecks, and i gallon, which is at the rate of 29 

 bufhels per acre. 



Nov. 2d. One ridge the fame breadth, the i6th 

 of an acre, was dibbled with wheat at nine inches 

 diftance every way, and the grains dropped by hand, 

 in different quantities, from 3 grains per hole to 1 5. 

 The produce was i bulhel, 2 pecks, and half a 

 gallon, or at the rate of 26 bufhels per acre. 



Nov. 3d. One ridge, the i6th of an acre, was 

 drilled by hand j the furrows were made by hand 

 with an hoe, at 1 2 inches diftance, and the feed was 

 covered with a rake. The feed fown was the 

 fourth of a peck, or half a gallon, and at the rate of 

 I bufhel per acre. The produce was i bufhel, 3 

 pecks, and at the rate of 28 bufhels per acre, or 

 J 8 after one, 



March 



