Chap. 11. BY M. LULLIN DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 1 39 



CHAP. II. 



Experiments made hy M. Lullin de Ch ateau-vieux, F'lrjl Syndic 

 of the City and Republic of Geneva, as communicated by him to M, 

 Duhamel. 



SECT. I. 



'Experiments made by M. Lullin de Chateau-vieux, in the 



Tear 1751. 



** TN 06lober 1750, fays M. de Chateau-vieux, I began my ex* 



■*• periments on a fpot of ground of a rich flrong foil, 165 iQ.^X. long, 

 and 42 feet wide. Not being yet provided with proper inftruments 

 for the horfe-hoeing hufbandry, I caufed it to be dug with a fpade, 

 and formed it into feven beds of equal fize. Great care was taken 

 to break the clods thoroughly, and to dig the earth very deep. 

 The beds, which were in a loofe ftate, were raifed high in the 

 middle. 



" On the fourteenth of Odlober, I fowed three of the beds witli 

 wheat, two with barley, and two with oats. I mull: obferve that, 

 in this country, it would have been better to have fowed a fort- 

 night fooner. 



" I made three furrows in each bed, fo fliallow, that the feed was 

 not buried above half an inch deep. The wheat was dropt by hand, 

 in fingle grains, at the diftance of fix inches from one another. The 

 barley was dropt at nine inches diftance, becaufe it branches more 

 than wheat. Though oats branch more than either, yet, as it is a 

 tender plant, and apt to be killed by the winter's cold, I fowed it at 

 the diftance of three inches one grain from another. 



** I ufed 2880 grains of wheat, weighing three ounces fifteen pen- 

 nyweights, to fow the three beds. In one of the beds of barley, I 

 fowed four rows. I employed 1491 grains, weighing two ounces, 

 in fowing the two beds; and four ounces of oats were fufficient to 

 fow the two other beds. I neglefted to count the grains. 



" Thefe feeds came up very well, and though they grew but little 

 before winter, yet fome of them fliot out their fecond leaf. They 

 foon fuftained a confiderable lofs. Numbers of fmall fnails eat many 

 of the plants clofe to the earth. I judged it neceflary to fupply this- 

 lofs, by fowing frefti feed. 



" The winter was very unfavourable to corn. We had almoft con- 



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