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blanks in the rows. As this is eighty-one inches 

 of fpace to the plant, this is at the rate of twenty- 

 eight ears per fquare foot. If the ears had only^ 

 thirty grains, this would by the former calculation 

 be a great crop, and equal to the average in the 

 garden this year. The grain was fmall, and one 

 ounce contained 8 1 o grains. The fmallnefs of the 

 grains might, probably, be occafioned by the late 

 planting and the drynefs of the feafon that followed. 



This year the fame experiment is again tried, 

 with plants from feed fown in the garden in Auguft 

 lafl, and fome from feed fown Lift year in Odober, 

 and frequently cut over during fummer. 



I am, your obedient fervant, 



JOHN ANSTRUTHER. 



London, Jan. ^o, 1786. 



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Article LII. 



Comparative view of two Crops of Barley, one drilled, 

 and the other fown Broadcajl in the fame Field. 



[By Sir John Anstruther, Bart.] 



Gentlemen, 



I Herewith fend you an account of an experiment 

 made to afcertain the produce of drilled barley, 

 compared with broadcaft. The feed was fown on 



the 



