lyi. EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



the bed 1 165 feet long, which was dunged with three loads of horfe 

 dung, and produced only 1 9 fheaves, would, if dunged with flieep's 

 dung, have produced 23 -4-t44j ^^^d the bed dunged with cow dung,, 

 which yielded but 16 flieaves, would have yielded ly-^-T^l. 



" The eight folded beds, whofe whole length was 9412 feet, 

 would have yielded 190 fheaves -j- -rr', inftead of only 142 fheaves, 

 which was the amount of their produdt. 



" It is likewife plain, that if the whole of my 12 acres in 

 the new way had been dung'd with fheep's dung, as the bed 

 842 feet long was ; I fhould, in the fame proportion, have reap- 

 ed 1700 fheaves, which would be but 120 fheaves lefs than the 

 whole produce of the twelve acres folded all over, and fowed 

 in the broad-cafl way. If fo, I fay, that thofe 120 fheaves 

 would not be equivalent to the quantity of grain which I faved 

 by fowing according to the new hufbandry. An hundred of our 

 fheaves yield, in general, little more than 378 pounds of wheat. 

 The 1 20 fheaves which the 1 2 acres fowed in the broad-caft way 

 produced more than the 1 2 acres in beds, would therefore yield 

 but 453 pounds. Dedudt this from 871 pounds, which I faved 

 in the feed of thefe lafl 1 2 acres fowed in the new way, and I 

 fliall flill be a gainer: for I fowed only 388 pounds in this 

 ground; whereas 1260 pounds were ufed to fow the other 12 

 acres in the common way. This would have been the produce 

 of the firft year's crop, fuppofing that the whole of my 1 2 acres 

 in beds had been dunged as the bed of 842 feet was. For 

 want of that, I reaped but 1208 fheaves. They have juft been 

 threflied, and have yielded only 5040 pounds of grain." 



M. Duhamel makes the following remarks on this account of 

 M. RoufTel : 



The 1208 fheaves yielded but 5040 pounds of grain, from 

 which we are to dedudl 388 pounds for the feed. The neat 

 produce is therefore 4652 pounds, which would make in three 

 years 13956 pcamds. The other field in the common way pro- 

 duced 8757 pounds, from which we are to dedudl 1260 pounds for 

 the feed: the neat produce is confequently 7497 pounds; the half 

 of which is 3748 pounds and a half, for the next year's crop. 

 This is all that the 12 acres in the common way would pro- 

 duce in three years, and amounts to no more than 1 1 245 pounds 

 and a half : coniequently the balance in favour of the new huf- 

 bandry, in th;ce yCuLi, is 2710 pounds and ahalf, or one fourth 

 2 part 



