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this is the fmallefl: incrcafe after one. Lafl: year 

 the produce of grain planted at thefe diftances was 

 25 cars per hole, or 100 per foot of rows; the ears 

 had ;^9 grains each; which is only 139 grains after 

 onCj but is 1300 per fquare foot. 



This year, that which was planted at 28 grains 

 per foot, yielded 1 8| ears per hole, and 74 per 

 foot, with 51 grains per ear, which is only 134 after 

 one, and 1 258 per fquare foot. The 28 grains per 

 foot of rows, or 3 fquare feet, has 154 inches of 

 fpace per grain : and the feed is at the rate of two 

 pecks and a half per acre. 



The produce of laft year, viz. 1300 grains per 

 fquare foot, is at the rate of eighty-four bufliels 

 and three pecks per acre. 



And the produce of this year, viz. 1258 grains 

 per fquare foot, is at the rate of eighty-one bufhels 

 and two pecks per acre.* 



This year one grain per hole, and four holes 

 per fquare foot, yielded more than the 28 grains 



• Thefe variations of the produce of the experiments, Ihews how 

 little a few fmall experiments can be depended upon to eftablifh any 

 fyftem. The greatefl produce in both thefe years, is from twenty-eight 

 grains per foot of rows; they are more per fquare foot than the others 

 with fmaller quantities of feed. But one row with four holes per foot, 

 and only one grain per hole, produced more than thofe. This experi. 

 nient fhews the great produce from one grain where it has fpace, and 

 the great crops that rich ground may produce. 



did. 



