n8 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Partll. 



III. Continuation of the 'experimefit made at Acou /« the years 



1751 and 1752. 



''T^ H E fame fpct of ground continued to be cultivated according 

 ■*- to the new principles, without dung, and yielded this year 

 after the rate of 70 French bufhels an acre. 



Inftead of fowing, according to the ufual way, twelve of thofe 

 bufhels of wheat fteeped and limed, only two bufhels of that mea- 

 fure were ufed to an acre. The crop may therefore be eftimated at 

 leait 80 bufhels of very fine wheat. 



The owner of this ipot had no ground fowed this year in the old 

 way, with which a comparifon could be made : but he was well 

 fitisfied with his crops, which yielded him at lead forty for one. 



SECT. IV. 



Experiment inade at Denainvilliers in the year 1753. 



'"T^HIS ground was badly cultivated in the year 1752, as we ob- 

 ■*' ferved before, and the crop fuifered by it. It was now fowed, 

 part with common wheat, and part with Smyrna wheat. M. Duha- 

 mel's intention was to try whether this laft grain, which requires a 

 great deal of nourifhment, and which for that reafon does not anfwer 

 well in the common hufbandry, would do better when cultivated after 

 the new method. But this corn, v.'hichwas fowed too thin at firft, 

 fuftained a confiderable lofs before it could be reaped. The Angula- 

 rity of the grain drew numbers of curious people to fee it, each of 

 whom gathered at leafl fome ears, and others a quantity, in order to 

 fow it in their gardens. Notwithftanding all thefe loffes, the common 

 and the Smyrna wheat together produced 76 llieaves and one-fourth, 

 an acre, which yielded 500 pounds of fine corn. Forty-fix bufhels, 

 v/eighing 960 pounds, are reckoned a good return from an acre of the 

 fame kind of foil cultivated in the common way; from which muft 

 be deducted at leafl four bufliels, or 84 pounds, for the extraordinary 

 quantity of feed employed in that way. The produce of an acre 

 cultivated in the common way is hereby reduced to 876 pounds : 

 but none yielded near fo much this year. However, fuppofing the 

 crop of the acre cultivated according to the new principles, to be 

 lefs than that of the other by 380 pounds ; ftill it will be found that 

 the produce of the field cultivated in the common way will amount 

 to no more than 1173 pounds in three years; whereas even on the 

 footing of this diminifhed crop, the acre cultivated in the new way 

 will produce 1488 pounds of wheat in that fpace of time. 



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