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sidered a pretty fair quantity for an experiment; perhaps a much 
smaller one would not be so. 
The digging, as at my common nursery price, costs fourpence 
per rood, of forty-nine square yards (the rood of this country) or 
thirty-three shillings per acre; the transplanting, fourpence half- 
penny per thousand ; but there is a great saving of seed, from 
one to two pecks of wheat producing as many plants as are suffi-’ 
cient to plant an acre, whereas the usual quantity for plough 
cultivation, sown broadcast, is eight pecks, or two bushels per 
acre. The following, on these daéa, is a calculation of the ex- 
pense of cultivating one acre in this way, supposing the lines nine 
inches asunder : 
Digging sat gee re: 
Transplanting 232, 323 plants at 43d, Pe 1000 4 7 12 
Two pecks of seed wheat .. . ale 0 4.6. 
Total «0G SA RE 
During the time of making these experiments, it occurred to 
me, that probably the increased quantity of wheat, produced in 
this way, arose more from the deep working of the land by the 
spade, than. from the circumstance of transplantation; and I 
added to the transplanting experiments, for the two past seasons, 
others, in which the wheat was sown both in drills and broad- 
cast, the land in all the cases worked in the same manner by the 
spade, and the following are the results : 
Crop 1819. bushels p. acre. 
No. 1 transpl. from the seed-bed into 6 in. lines, produced 624 
—2 do. 9 do. do. 56; 3 
—3 do. 12 do. do. 61” 
— 4 sown in drills 9 do. do. 65 
— 5 sown broadcast do. 583 
Crop 1820. 
No. | transpl. from the seed-bed into 6 in. lines, produced 68! 
—2 do. 9 do. do. 68: 
—3 do. 12 do. do. 602 
—-~ 4 sown in drills 9 do, do. 734 
—- 5 sown broadcast do. 76} 
I must here state, that a portion of No. 4, in the last detailed 
set of experiments, was laid down by wet, when in flower, and 
proved very abortive, otherwise I have little doubt that No, 4 
(as in the former year) would have exceeded No. 5 in quantity 5 
and a considerable part of the wheat of Nos. 1, 2, and 3, was 
shaken out by the wind, and destroyed by birds, to the amount 
probably of five or six bushels per acre. 
With relation to denominations of Winchester measure, com- 
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