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and weight, by being fown too late,* in confc- 

 quence of the neceflity we are under of prcferving 

 fomc of our turnips as long as pofllble. 



I ann fufficientJy aware that this experiment is 

 not decifive ; and that a fingle experiment, how- 

 ever decifive it may fcem, is not properly conclu- 

 fivc; but I hope you will foon receive many others, 

 and this may then contribute its mite towards 

 forming an average, from which a juft conclufion 

 may be drawn, 



I am. Gentlemen, 



Your obedient humble fervant, 



Br aeon near Norwich^ E. HOW MAN, 



Feb, II, 1775. 



P, S, As it has been demonftrated before the 

 Houfc of Commons, that the weight of the flour 

 of heavy wheat exceeds the weight of the flour of 

 light wheat more than the difirrence between the 

 refpedlive weights of the grain; it may be fafely 

 concluded, that the fame thing holds true with re- 

 fpedl to heavy and light barley of the fame kind: 

 and with refpedt to the Siberian barley, it may cer- 

 tainly be concluded, that the weight of its floui^ 



• The Norfolk Farmers feldom begin to fow Barley till May. 



exceeds 



