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"To difcover if this decreafj continued in propor- 

 tion to greater quantities of feed, fome barley was 

 planted in fpring 1785 both in a garden and field ; 

 in the garden fome rows were planted at one foot in 

 the rows, and the rows were three feet diftant; 

 fome with one and two grains per hole, and fome 

 with 14 and 15 per hole, and others with more 

 holes per foot. In the field,* they were planted at 

 nine inches every way, the firft row with one grain 

 per hole, and increafing the grains one every row 

 to fourteen and fifteen; this is near three times the 

 greateft quantity of feed of the wheat planted in 

 the garden. 



On viewing the crops m May, the planted 

 wheat, where moll grains were ;iropped, looked 

 very well, and proved good plants ; but thofe rows 

 with few grains, and at one foot diftance, were 

 very bad, and had few flems. The barley in the 



• The ridge dibbled -with barley, was ninety-three yards and t-w'o 

 feet long, and five yards broad, wliitli is 468 fquare yards. The Eng- 

 lifh acre is 4840 fquare yards, therefore, this ridge is the tenth and one- 

 thiid of an acre; tlie produce of it, vlun threfhed, was three firlots 

 and two pecks and three quarters of barley mcafure; this is one half 

 more than the wheat meafure. Therefore this .ridge produced five 

 bufhck two gallons and three quartern of wheat meafure, or Winchef- 

 ter meafure. By this proportion, the produce would be fifty-five 

 bufhels one gallon and three quarters per Englifli acre. 



N. B. The wheat meafure is about one per cent, more than 



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garden. 



