ii6 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Partll. 



pains, his wheat would have been much cleaner than that of the 

 neighbouriag field. 



M. Duhamel mentions a flip of land, which was too narrow to 

 be formed into beds, and on which the owner was notwithflandihg 

 willing to try the new culture. He made it into one large bed, 

 in which lis fowed lix rows of wheat, and horfe-hoed the vacant 

 ground on both Ikies. He hoped that fix rows would be as much 

 benefited by the hoeing, as three : but he was miftaken, for, at har- 

 vell, the two outfide rows were very fine, the next to them were 

 inferior, and the two middle rows were no better than the wheat in 

 a common field. 



II. At Acou, in the year 1751. 



'"T^HE fpot of ground, which was cultivated at this place according 

 -*■ to the principles of the new hulbandry in the year 1750, yield- 

 ed, as we obferved before, 150 bufhels an acre; and the other fpot, 

 which was cultivated in the common way, yielded at the rate of 133 

 bufhels and a half. The firft fpot, which was not dunged, pro- 

 duced 83 bufhels and one third in 1751. This year's crop fell 

 confequently 66 bufliels and tvv^o thirds fhort of the preceding 

 year's. The owner was however well fatified with this crop : far 

 tbe land in the beft tilth and beft dunged in the common fields, 

 having produced but 48 bufliels an acre, he had a profit of 27 or 

 28 bufhels, including the faving in the feed. 



SECT. IIL 



Continuation of tbe experiments at Denainvilliers orul Acou, in the 

 ' ' year 1752. 



I. At Denainvilliers. 



TH E fame acre which was at firfl cultivated in our new way, was 

 again fowed with wheat this year, and without being dunged. 

 It now produced but fixteen French bufhels. This may be partly 

 imputed to hail that fell on the i oth of July, which greatly da- 

 maged this fpot as well as all the neighbouring fields. But, inde- 

 pendent of this accident, it mufl be owned that the corn never pro- 

 mifed well. It was rufted whilft in blade, like that of all the other 

 fields; but the rains which fell towards the end of July ; and the 

 hoeing which it received at that time, quickened the vegetation : the 

 plants which had not branched at the proper feafon, made frefh 



ftioots. 



