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March T2th. One ridge, the i6th of an ?.cre, 

 was. planted With plants from the garden, the fanme 

 as were tranfplanted on the other two ridges on the 

 ill of November, and ahb at nine inches diftance 

 every way. The produce was one buihei, 2 pecks, 

 or ac the rate of 24 bulhel^ per acre. 



All the others were reaped the 8th and 9th of 

 September 17873 but thofe tranfplanted on the 

 1 2th of March were not fit to cut until the 2d of 

 Odober. 



All thefe were frequently hand-hoed and cleaned 

 in the rows. 



Abstract. 



Two ridges, 8tli of an acre, tranfplanted "I 



Nov, ift, J 2 



One ditto, dibbled -wnth grain Nov. 2d, 

 One ditto, drilled by hand (feed h gallon) 

 One ditto, tranfplaritedJNlafcli 12th, 



Thefe fmall experiments might have produced 

 more, if they had been executed by thofe accuf- 

 tomed to that culture, and more accurately hoed; 

 but as they were executed by common ploughmen, 

 not accuftomed to drilling, or accuracy in hoeing, 

 (as was the cafe laft year in forming the ridges, by 



making 



