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Pleafed with the information, I determined to give 

 the fairefl: trial to the experiment, and chofe a piece 

 of ground which was frefh, and had not received any 

 manure. In this I made fix contiguous beds. I 

 then marked out in each bed one hundred and twenty- 

 eight fpots, four inches afunder every way. In 

 the firft bed I planted the fame number of barley 

 feeds, which had been fleeped three days in the 

 above mixture. After this, I planted in the fame 

 manner, and in the adjoining bed, the fame quantity 

 of feeds dry and notJleeped\ but before the foil was 

 clofed upon them, I poured into every hole two-thirds 

 of a drachm of the faid compofition, — a quantity fo 

 fmall as fcarcely to fill a tea-fpoon, and which could 

 not have been fuppofed to produce any vifible efFe<5t. 

 I then planted in the third bed the fame number of 

 feeds in their natural ftate, unprepared, and 'without 

 any compofition. 



The following obfervations I made with great ac- 

 curacy: — The feeds which had been fleeped did not 

 make their appearance fo foon by eight or nine days 

 as the grain which had been planted ivithout any pre- 

 paration : and thofe feeds, upon which the mixture 

 had been poured, continued y?/// longer in the ground, 

 infomuch that I thought they had been entirely de- 

 ftroyed; at laft, however, they came up, though but 

 fparingly, and lefs in quantity than thofe which had 

 been (teeped: — but both forts were far lefs produc- 

 tive 



