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the wheat wfts in every refpcdt the beft in the field, 

 being taller, ftronger, thicker, the ears larger and 

 finer, and the crop very, clean fi*om grafs and weeds. 

 The reapers all declared they had not cut any 

 wheat fo good this feafon. 



The part dreflcd with hme and nriud was better 

 than that drefled with dung only, that being the 

 word of all. The owner of the wheat and my- 

 fclf were both of the opinion, that the difference 

 in refpedl of quantity of fheaves was in favour of 

 the fern-drefled part, nearly as feven to five -, but 

 the difference with refpedb to the quantity of 

 clean corn mud certainly be in a greater propor- 

 tion, by reafon of the ears being fo much larger 

 and finer. 



I hope the above relation (the truth whereof may 

 be depended on) will be fufficient to convince thole 

 who are properly fituated for carrying the experi- 

 ment into further execution. But here permit me 

 to obferve, that fuccefsful as the above experiment 

 proved, it was not fairly tried, for the following rea- 

 fons: Firft, the fallow was not good for want of one 

 or two more ploughings at the proper feafon; 

 fecondly, the fern was not cut until the latter end 

 of Auguft, and fome in September, confequently 



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