Chap. I. AT DENAINVILLIERS AND ACOU. 119 



SECT. V. 



Experiment made at Denaiiivilliers in the year 1754. 



'TpHE alleys having been very well ftirred laft year with the hoe- 

 -*■ plough, there was reafon to expeft a plentiful crop this year, 

 tho' the feed was fowed fomewhat late. It produced about 50 French, 

 bufhels and a half, or 1060 pounds of wheat an acre; which was a 

 good return for the kind of foil on which the experiment was tried ; 

 eipecially if at leaft 60 pounds faved in the feed be added to It. 



What ought not to be omitted is, that half the crop confiiled of 

 Smyrna wheat, and that it had not degenerated in the three years 

 that it had now been cultivated according to the new hufbandry. 



SECT. VI. 



Experiment made at Denainvilliers in the year 1755. 



f\P the two fields which had now been cultivated for feven yeai-s, 

 ^-^ according to the principles of the new hufbandry, one, which 

 was badly plowed in 1754, yielded but an indifferent crop. That of 

 the other field was good. In 1755, M. Duhamel fays he had reafon 

 to be fatisfied with the produdls of both thefe fields, compared to the 

 other crops of wheat in the fame country, which, in general, yielded 

 but very little grain. 



SECT. VII. 



Experiments fnade by M. Diancourt, captain aid-major to the regiment 

 of French Grenadiers, in the years 1753, ^754 ^.nd 1755. 



TN the beginning of November 1752, M. Diancourt fowed, ac- 

 -■■ cording to the new method, fix perches of land, at 22 feet to the 

 perch, with Flanders wheat. As only three or four grains of it came 

 up, he fowed the fame fpot again, towards the end of November, 

 with common wheat, which rofe well and throve perfedlly. 



As M. Diancourt had fowed only two rows of wheat, which took 

 up about fix inches in breadth, and had left alleys fix feet wide be- 

 tween his rows, he juftly regretted that only a thirteenth part of his 

 ground was occupied; and, in order to employ it to more advantage,, 

 he refolved in April to fow a row of barley in the middle of each of 

 thofe wide alleys. 



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