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the feed of which, after deducing that which produced the 297 

 blighted plants, is reduced to two ounces and fix pennyweights. The' 

 I pi^ plants were the whole produce of the crop, which yielded 55 

 pounds of 1 8 ounces to the pound. But the fame ground and plants 

 produced likewife what was eaten by the birds ; for which it is but 

 juft to make an allowance. The whole produce will then have been 

 in reality 1 10 pounds, which to me feemed very confiderable. 



" I made another enquiry, which feemed to me of fome importance ; 

 this was, to know whether the number of the fineft and largefl ears, 

 was greater than that of the middling and fmalleft. I examined them 

 with the utmoft attention, and found almoft all the ears of equal 

 beauty : at leaft 19 out of 20, I am confident, were fo. 



" r was likewife willing to know what number of grains might be 

 contained in each ear. To this end, without regarding the propor- 

 tion I had found between the number of the finefi; ears and that of 

 the fmallefi:, I took twelve middle fized ears, twelve of the fmalleft, 

 and twelve of the finefi:. 



" The 1 2 middling ears contained one with another 37 grains. 



" The 12 fmallefi: ears, 30 grains; and 



" The 12 finefi: ears, 50 grains apiece. 



" The 1079 plants of barley, produced y^ pounds of 18 ounces 

 to the pound. What was eaten by the -birds, fliould likewife be 

 added here. 



" My oats produced 103 pounds of i8 ounces, exclufive of what 

 was deftroyed by the birds. 



" This little experiment fliews, that the new hufbandry will be 

 equally profitable for all forts of grains." 



Ohfervations on the foregoing Kxperhnent, by M. De Chateau- 



VlEUX. 



*"T^ HE quantity of wheat gathered from the three beds, feems 

 -'- to me as great as could be expe<5ted. Though I had but 55 

 pounds, yet, adding thereto the 55 eaten by the birds, this little 

 fpot yielded no pounds. In large fields we are not fo fenfible of 

 what the birds defiroy. 



" If we likewife take into this account, the 1068 plants deftroyed 

 by the fnails, and the 297 blighted plants, making together 1365 ,- 

 they would have yielded 100 pounds of wheat, and the whole crop 

 would have been 210 pounds: for it cannot be doubted but they 

 would have yielded in the fame proportion as the 151 5- What 



proves 



