IJ4 To the A^riculiural Society, 



put the- poorefl ground in a ftate that will produce from 

 fixteen to twenty-two bulhels per acre. I find that this 

 method of manuring anfwers bed on loam mixed with fand or 

 grav J, and has but Httle effect on clay; one reafon which may 

 be affigned, why it has not the fame effedt upon the latter is, that 

 the parts that it is compofed of, coheres clofer and flronger 



together than that of any other ground. The above 



experiments have only been tried with the wheat that is called, 

 in the counties of Ulfter and Orange, by the name of Thome's 

 wheat : it is a little white-bearded, brought from Long 

 Illand, and on ground clear of flone. Query, whether this 

 method of manuring, by frequent ploughing, would not have 

 a good effect upon land that is too rich for wheat, by affording 

 a greater degree of exhalation ? I had a fmall field of about 

 five acres, of a fandy loam, the laft crop poor rye ; on one 

 end had flood a log-houfe, about four years ; the method of 

 ploughing and harrowing, as before mentioned, was obferved 

 on the whole ; one and a quarter of an acre of the ground, 

 nearefl and about where the houfe flood, was very rich^ 

 —Oftober ifl, 1787, Tfowed a fmall quantity, lefs than 

 one bufhel of wheat : my return was fifty three bufhels and 

 thirteen quarts. Some part of this ground, before ploughing, 

 appeared poor ; the refl of the field was fowed with rye ; it 

 grew, and was very rank. It is three years fince I have 

 entirely omitted fowinq; rye ; for I find a greater number of 

 buflieU of wheat can be raifed off the fame piece of ground,. 



