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PRACTICAL TREATISE 



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H' U S B A N D R Y. 



PART II. 



Exp e r I m e n t s ^W Reflections I'-eiative to the 

 NEW HUSBANDRY. 



C H A p: I. 



EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT. 



SECT. I. 



Experiments made at Denainvilliers and Kcon, in t hi Tew 175c. 



•R. Duhamel begins, his account of the advantage"i 

 of .the new hufbandry, with experiments niad': 

 on fmall pieces of land. The two firfl: which lie 

 mentions were made with great care, one under 

 his own eyes at his brother's eftate called Dcnaiu- 

 viiliers, aad the other under tiie eyca of hiS 

 W^^^ neighbour, M. de St. Hilaire. 

 The more eafily to compare the produce of the new hufbandry 

 "VBith that of the c!d, M. Duhamel took two acres of laud, fituaied 



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