i^z EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part 11, 



fown. The reafon was, that the grain was too imall, ar^ not pro- 

 portioned to the out-let of the drill-plough. At the end of ten days 

 this corn rofe well. On the eighteenth of December, I obferved 

 that mod: of thefe plants had branched into four flalks, whilft thofe 

 in the common way had but three. I perceived no fenlible difference 

 then, between the dunged and the undunged beds. It was not till 

 the twenty-fourth of January, that I faw plainly that the plants of 

 the dunged beds were of a deeper green, and had made longer and 

 more vigorous Ihoots than thofe of the undunged beds. By the 

 twentieth of February, five fmaller ftalks iflued out of the five great 

 ones, which was not the cafe with the wheat in the common way. 

 The alleys did not receive their firfl plowing till the tenth of March* 

 Eleven of the main flalks grew an inch and a half in five days ; 

 and I obferved that the moles were rather more bufy in the dunged 

 beds, than in the others. As the earth was yet fomewbat too foft, 

 I thought it needlefs to continue a plowing which could do no good, 

 and therefore poflponed it to the twenty-eighth of March, and fol- 

 lowing days. On the ninth of April, I found a plant with i8 ftalks 

 in one of the dunged beds : the greateft number of branches that 

 any of the plants in the undunged beds had, was twelve : but on 

 the other hand, I likewile found fome v/hich had eighteen in the field 

 of comparifon fowed in the common way. On the ninth of May, this 

 iame plant had 20 flalks; and from that time it branched no more. 

 The fecond plowing was not given till three weeks after, viz. the 

 twenty-eighth of May; which, I think, wasfomewhat too late after 

 the corn had ceafed to branch. By the twenty-third of June, there 

 were three forts of wheat in all the beds : there were ears in bloffom, 

 others jufi: going out of bloom, and others not yet out of their hoods. 

 The finefl ears were thofe which came up and bloflbmed firfl. The 

 mofl forward beds were thole which had been dunged under furrow, 

 with flieep's dung : the next to them, were the eight beds which 

 had been folded, the plants of which were a little greener than thofe 

 of the undunged beds. The laft plowing was given on the tenth of 

 July. The grain had then begun to fill : but that in the common 

 way was the mofl forward, though it was fowed three weeks later 

 than the other. I know not for what reafon, the wheat of the new 

 hufbandry began to be reaped the fourth of Augufl, and that in the 

 old way was let fland till the thirteenth. The produd of both cul- 

 tures was as follows : 



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