CROPS. 



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The wheats produced as follows : 

 Drilled Wheats. 



Dibbled Wheats. 



Mr. Miles s remarks, subjoined to this statement, are well worth 

 repeating. 



Notwithstanding the dibbling in this trial must be considered, 

 as far as regards Nos. 2 and 4, a failure, yet I cannot but state 

 my thorough conviction, that upon light, flat land, free from stones, 

 this system ought to be universally adopted. I should, however, 

 recommend not less than a bushel to be dibbled to an acre, and 

 that the process should take place earlier in the season, as when, 

 from the quantity of grain grown, there cannot be a superabun 

 dance of plant, it is of great moment that it should be fully es 

 tablished before the alternations of frost and thaw commence. 

 The tillering of the plants is extraordinary, as well as the strength 

 of the straw ; and what is saved in seed may be most beneficially 

 applied to keeping the land perfectly clean, with advantage to 

 the laborer and certain profit to the cultivator. If, indeed, we 

 take two instances of the same species of corn from the above 

 tabular results, we cannot fail to be struck with the much greater 

 return from the small than from the large quantity sown ; for 

 instance, I find that No. 2, drilled at two bushels per acre, pro 

 duced forty-six bushels two pecks : whilst No. 1, dibbled at two 



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