124 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



in fingle, double, and triple rows, Ibme very early, and others very 

 late. He could not attend the progrefs of thele trials himfelf, bein'^ 

 called away to the army : but the refult, as he informed M. Duha- 

 mel, was, that he was convinced that corn planted in the new way 

 is much lefs liable to be lodged than what is fowed in the old. With 

 regard to the advantage of fowing very early, to be fatisfied in which 

 M. Diancourt fowed feme rmvs the 9th of Auguft, and others the 

 ifl', 5th, loth, and 15th of September, he obferved, that the rows 

 which were fowed the 9th of Auguft, fpindled but five days earlier 

 than the wheat in the common way, and that the ears were but 

 midling: nor did the rows which were fowed the ift, 5th, loth, and 

 15 th of September fpindlc much fooner than other common wheat j 

 and a fpot fowed in lingle rows, produced as much as the fame ex- 

 tent of ground fowed in double and in triple rows. 



From thefe experiments, M. Diancourt was tempted to conclude, 

 I . That the right feafon for fowing is in the month of September, 

 and the beginning of Odtober. 2. That it is more profitable to fow 

 in fingle rows, than in double or triple ones. However, he would 

 not, faid he, pretend abfolutely to determine thefe points, till he 

 flaould have had at leaft three years experience. 



One of the pieces of wheat from which M. Diancourt expe£led 

 moft, and which in fadl promifed greatly at firft, fuffered a fudden 

 and almoft total change, the plants decaying vifibly from day to 

 day. Surprifed at this accident, he ordered the whole fpot to be 

 turned up in his prefence, in order to difcover the caufe ; when he 

 found the whole length of the ground immediately under the rows, 

 hollowed by moles and field-mice, drawn thither, in all probability, 

 by fome remaining roots of turneps with which that ground had 

 been planted the year before. 



Mr. Diancourt continued his experiments in the year 1755, in 

 the fame manner as before, and with ftill greater fuccefs. 



SECT. VIII. 



Experiments made by M. De la Croix, at Verdun on the Meiife, in 

 1755 j ext railed from a Letter of his to M. Du Ham el. 



" iN the year 1755, fays M. De la Croix, being convinced of the 



-*■ folidity of the principles of the new hufbandry, I defired M. de 



Chateau-vieux to buy me a drill-plough. I received it, well condi- 



2 tioned. 



