The Lois PFeedon Plan of Growimj Wheat. 585 



1853 ; forked in the spring ; occasionally spudded, and scarified 

 before sowing. Seed sown as usual, September 1854 ; twice 

 hoed, and weeded as usual ; moulded up witli the plough in June. 

 Crop clean, but poor, and blighted : cut September 1855. 



Half only, of common fallow acre, drilled as usual for season 

 1854-5 ; hoed and weeded as usual. Crop small, but much less 

 blighted than before. 



In the following Table (I.) are given the results — 



Of the four years' trial of the Lois Weedon plan ; one portion 

 with " one secdy^ and another with '■'■two seeds^^ in each hole. 



Of the " common fallow " acre, drilled with about two bushels 

 of seed per acre. 



And, for the sake of comparison, the produce in each of the four 

 years, of the continuously unmanured and continuously cropped 

 portion, in the adjoining experimental field. 



This Table (I.) shows, that in each of the four years a larger 

 crop was obtained where two seeds were sown in each hole than 

 where one only was sown ; and a reference to the weight per 

 bushel, proportion of offal corn, and proportion of corn to straw, 

 will show that the ''^ tico-seed" crop was also invariably somewhat 

 better as to Cjuality. As before observed, however, it is only due 

 to the Rev. Mr. Smith to say, that ^'■foj' the sake of the samjile and 

 for safety sahe," he now recommends the seed to be sown thicker 

 than he did formerly ; though even in the later editions of the 

 ' IVord in Season,^ he still advised that the seed should be dropped 

 singly, at two to three inches apart in the rows. But, even with 

 the two seeds, the crop is in every case quite insignificant ; and it 

 should be noticed that it is only in the first year — that is, before 

 the subsoil was brought up — that this thin dibbled crop was 

 larger than the comparatively thickly drilled one on the con- 

 tinuously cropped and continuously unmanured plot in the ad- 

 joining field. Furtlier, coinpavmg the l)ost of tlie two, namely 

 tlie two-seed crop, with the drilled one after common fallow, we 

 find that the latter in each year gives from twice to thrice the 

 amount of produce of the former. 



VVith regard to the drilled crop on the common fallow, it should 

 be remarked that, in the first season (1851-2), the whole acre was 

 sown ; in the second season tlu; whole acre was lallow ; and in 

 the third the whole was again sown. Rut, as this plan only gave 

 a crop for'comjjarison every other year, the plot was divided into 

 two j)ortions alter tlie harvest of 1854, which were to be cropj)ed 

 or fallowed alternately. Comparing together the produce of this 

 common fdloic portion, with that of i\\o. continuonshj unmannrcd plot 

 in the adjoitiiiig field, we see that, in 1852, the common fallow 

 gives nearly three times the most produce; in 1854 it gives rather 



