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Barley, unprepared, came up eight or nine 

 days fooner than xhtjirji^ and produced - 7 co 



Oats, Jiecped, were feven or eight days 

 more backward than theory grain, and pro- 

 duced - - - - - - -159 



Oats, notjleeped, but having a fmall quan- 

 tity of the mixture poured into the hole with 

 them, were longer in the ground than the 

 former, and produced - - - - 103 



Oat s, unprepared, came up feven or eight 

 days fooner than the firft, and produced - 238 



An objection may poffibly be made to the fmall 

 fcale upon which the effay has been brought for- 

 ward: yet as the effects produced by the compofi- 

 tion, and by the varied modes of applying it, were 

 remarkably fimilar in the diiFerent forts of grain, 

 planted at the fame time, and in the fame foil ; I 

 think fuch an objection cannot reafonably invalidate 

 an experiment of this nature; more efpecially when 

 it is confidered that a greater degree of accuracy and 

 precifion can accompany fimilar attempts upon a 

 fmaller fcale, than when extended to a greater fcope. 

 And if I am not greatly miftaken, fome of the very 

 ingenious obfcrvations, which the learned chemifl 

 Dr. Ingknhouze has lately given to the world, 

 with refpcft to the nutriment and fupport of vege- 

 table life, have been founded upon experiments, even 



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