112 EX P E RI M E N T S ON WH EAT . Part II, 



ployed to fow the rows ; whereas 12 buihels or 252 pounds were 

 ufed to Tow the other acre. Ten bulliels, or 240 pounds, fhould 

 therefore be dedufted from the produce of this lall, v/hich will then 

 exceed that of the rows only by eighteen bufhels, or 372 pounds. 

 -' The expence of dunging'an acre, is equal to the value of twenty 

 bufnels of wheat when it bears a middling price. This already brings 

 the produce of the acre fowed in rows, at leaf}; to an equality 

 ■with that of the othei-''''atl'd; But a very confiderable advantage 

 of the hew hufhandry yet remains to be confidered. 



The value of the produce of an acre in the common way, can, 

 in three years, be only equal to the value of one crop of wheat and 

 one third of a crop; becaufe a crop of oats is reckoned equal to bat 

 one third of a crop of wheat : therefore the produce of three years 

 v/i\] be only 130 buihels and two-thirds; whereas the acre, cul- 

 tivated according to the^new Kufbandry, will yield three crops of 

 wheat, which, fuppofiiig them equal to that of the firll year, will 

 amount to 210 bufhcls in the fime fpace of time. The increafe is 

 thus one-third greater, befides the favins: of duns;. 



Rrfidt of fhc'JLxperiwcnt at Aeon. 



In this experiment, both the acres were dunged ; as well that 

 cultivated in the new way, as that in the old. 



The acre cultivated in the new way produced 150 hufliels or 

 31 i^G pounds. 



The acre cultivated in the old way produced 133 bulliels and 

 one-third, or 2800 pounds. . Thus the produce of tlie former, 

 exceeded that of the latter by 16 bufliels and two-thirds, or 350 

 pounds; which make a clear gain of one-eighth : to this muft be 

 added eight or ten builiels faved in the feed : the profit will then 

 amount to 24 buihels artd two thirds; or 518 pounds. On cal- 

 ctilating the produce of the two acres for three years, it will be 

 found, that the acre cultivated in the old way will yield but 177 

 bufliels and feven-ninths ; whereas the acre cultivated in the new 

 method will produce in three years 450 bufliels. ThuSj befides the 

 faving of the feeds for onts, tliere will be in three years a clear 

 profit of 272 buflrels and two-ninths. A vaft advantage in favour 

 of the new hufbandry. 



As we have already, in treating of the difeafes of corn, mention- 

 ed the caufes which make it moft liable to be lodged, vv^e fhall here 

 pafs them over, and only obferve, that, in confirmation of the 

 I opinion 



