144 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part 11. 



iifed more than one horfe. I have Hkewife prepared with it the 

 ground lowed with wheat this autumn. 



" My new hoe and drill-ploughs have made it ealy for me to en- 

 large my experiments this year. However, I thought it moll advife- 

 able to proceed by degrees; and have therefore limited myfelf to the 

 culture of about ten acres, according to the new hulbandry, part 

 of which is in a very flrong foil, part in a very light foil, and part 

 in a middling and ftony foil. 



- " What 1 have had chiefly in view in my experiments this year is 

 to know exaSlly what quantity of feed will produce the moj} plentiful 

 crop. To this end, I have fowed wheat in difterent degrees of thick- 

 nefs, dropping the grains fome at one inch, fome at two, and fo on, 

 to the dillance of fix inches from each other. 



" All this wheat has at prefent a fine appearance, and the plants 

 are infinitely flronger than thofe in the common fields : their blades 

 are much larger, and of a very deep green colour. What is more, 

 they have already branched, and promife a great number of llialks. 

 I have counted on fome plants 20, and on others 25. Upon the 

 whole, there is great reafon to expedi an abundant crop. 



*' I have made another experiment with the drill-plough, witli 

 which I have fowed fome of my common fields. Inftead of fowing 

 the feed by hand in the broad caft way, as in the old hulbandry, 

 I have fowed the v/hole field with this inftrument, without leaving 

 any alleys. This has made a great faving of feed, having employed 

 only twelve pounds of eighteen ounces, to fow the fame extent of 

 ground, which ufed to be fowed with 1 1 o pounds. Yet I think this 

 fufiiciently thick: the plants are very fine, and of a deep green. 

 They have already begun to branch, and promife many ftalks. Hi- 

 therto my wheat gives me reafon to be pleafed with the experiment 

 I am making. I have fowed about 30 acres, in this manner." 



SECT. II. 



Experiments made by M. Lullin de Chateaij-vieux, //; the year 



1752. 



"]\ /| y experiments this year are of three kinds. The firll 



-LVJL was made on the fame fpot as lafl: year's experiment : 



the fecond on a piece of ground which was made into beds for 



the firll time; and the third, on a field plowed in broad-lands in 



the 



