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" Since the above experiment was made, there 

 have been two more crops of wheat taken from the 

 'field of five acres. In 1784 it produced lix quar- 

 ters per acre; in Odobcr 1785 the burthen in the 

 ftraw was not quite equal to the former year; but 

 the ears being remarkably large and long, (fome of 

 them meafuring 8 inches, and many containing 70 

 grains of corn) I think the crop, though not yet 

 threlhed, may be fafely cftimated at fix quarters per 

 acre. This will make the return from the three 

 yeai-s craps on the five acres, (with half the ex- 

 pence'for feed, reaping, &c. without any afliftance 

 fiom manure, for which tillage has been fubfti- 

 tutpd) amount to the fum of iiol. lis. or 36I. 17s. 

 each year; a receipt far exceeding my mo ft fan- 

 guine expedations. 



Pulverizing the land is wonderfully efficacious 

 in Iiiff loamy foils; but in light, fandy, and thin 

 lands, too much ploughing will prove detrimental. 



I have very confiderably reduced the expence of 

 planting wheat within thefe .three years; it now 

 amounts to no more than 6s. 4'.d. per acre, with a 

 frame having feven tines, or teeth ; but 1 prefer a 

 frame with only five, which reduces it is. 6d. more 

 per acre, and makes the prefent price but 4s. io|d. 

 per acre. 



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