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No. I. contained 3 roods, 2 perchcsi 9 fquart 

 yards. This was fown with Siberian Barley, by 

 dibbling, from the 9th to the 13th of May 1774. 

 The dillance of the holes was about fix inches one 

 way, and four the other. The diredlions givea 

 were to drop not more than two grains into each 

 hole, and they were in general executed exadlly, 

 I'he quantity of grain fown in this part was one 

 bufhel and a handful. On the i8th of June, the 

 ftalk was two feet in height, and the ear completely 

 formed in the (heath. It proved a very wet fum- 

 mer, and the rain beat it down. It was cut Sep- 

 tember the 6th; fome of it grew before it was 

 carried home, and fome could not be threfhed out 

 of the ftrawi but the produce was forty bufliels 

 one peck Winchefter meafure, each bufhel weigh- 

 ing fifty-four pounds. 



No. IL (the other part of the field) contained 

 I acre, 4 perches, 10 fquare yards. This was 

 fown under furrow with Siberian Barky, May the 

 loth and i ith, 1774, by which means this part had 

 one ploughing more than the other. The quantity 

 of grain fown was four bufhels. This was fooner 

 and more beaten down by the rain than the other, 

 as it grew thicker } but as it was cut fooner, (viz. 

 Aliguft 26) it was not fo much damaged, the other 



having 



