110 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT. Part II. 



in the fame field, plowed as ufual for wheat, and divided into two 

 equal parts, by a furrow ; fo that the quality of the foil in each acre 

 was perfectly alike. 



One of thefe acres was fov/ed in the common way with lo 

 bufliels of dry grain, \veighing 210 pounds, which, after being 

 fteeped, and fprinkled with lime, filled 12 bufliels, and weighed 

 252 pounds. 



The other acre was fowed with the drill plough, in the follow- 

 ing manner : firft, a border of tv/o feet was left unfowed ; then 

 three rows of wheat were fowed in a bed two feet wide: after 

 which another fpace, four feet wide, was left unfowed. This 

 fpace we call the a//ey. The beds, of three rows of wheat each, 

 and the alleys, were thus continued alternately till the whole was 

 finiflied. 



As 'the grains of wheat were fowed in the rows at the diftance 

 of four, five, or fix inches from each other, two bufhels, or forty 

 two pounds of wheat fleeped and limed, were more than fufficient 

 to fow this acre ; by which a faving was already made of ten 

 bufliels or two hundred and ten pounds of wheat, which would 

 have been ufed in the common hufbandry. 



This acre was fowed fo thin, that, during the winter and the 

 beginning of fpring, it had more the appearance of ground only 

 plowed, than of a field which had been fowed ; whereas the other 

 looked as green as a meadow. 



In the fpring, he vifited the rows, and pulled up the plants where 

 they grew too thick, fo as to leave at leaft four inches diflance 

 between each. The alleys were firft ftirred with the horfe-hoe. 



This horfe-hoeing had a wonderful effedl : the wheat became of a 

 deep green, puflied forth large blades, and branched greatly ; fo 

 that by the middle of May the earth between the rows was quite 

 covered, and the wheat was higher than that of the other acre, 

 which, in comparifon of this, was of a yellowifli green. When 

 the wheat of the rows began to fpindle, it was almoft ashigh again 

 as the other. The alleys then received their fecond hoeing. 



He plucked up at this time fome of the moft thriving plants of 

 the wheat fowed in the common way, and found that each grain 

 had produced no more than two, three, and very rarely four ftalks 

 capable of yielding ears. Many grains had even produced but one 

 ftalk, of which numbers were very weak, and feemed choaked by 

 the reft. 



Each 



