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broken up and ploughed into broad (letches,* (the 

 land being found and dry) which (letches were 

 alternately fet and fown throughout the whole field, 

 and the corn after reaping was laid and carefully 

 kept feparate. On threfliing, it was found that the 

 Wheat which had been fet produced two bufliels 

 per acre more than that fown. 



About Michaelmas 1775, the like experiment 

 was tried in a field of eight acres, which was a 

 clean clover (lubble, treated in all refpedls as the 

 former. The refult was, that the produce of the 

 Set Wheat exceeded that of the Sown Wheat one 

 bufhel per acre. 



In both trials, the corn of the Set Wheat ex- 

 ceeded that of the Sown in quality. It was more 

 equal, and proved by far the beflj fo that, inde- 

 pendent of the advantage accruing to the Farmer 

 from fupporting the poor by employment y (the beft 

 mode of fupporting them) inftead of affiding 

 them from the parifh fund, (perhaps the word) 

 you will fee, as I (hall now (late the account, 

 that there is fufficient inducement from the im- 

 mediate profit for him to attempt and pcrfift in 

 this praftice. 



* Dlvlfions by furrows* 



B 2 Profit 



