148 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part. IL 



cultivator; which was again repeated on the twenty-fifth of May 

 and the feventh of June. 



" This' wheat made a fine appearance : the length of the ftalks, 

 and the largenefs of the ears, fhew'd how much the new culture 

 promoted the growth of thefe plants, which branched nearly as 

 much as thofe of No. I. This field was reaped on the twenty- 

 fifth of July. 



" I fhall join to the account of what this crop produced, an efti- 

 mate of what might have been expedled if the fame ground had 

 been cultivated in the common way." • ni' '1 ^it-i 1 



yf cornfarifon of the produce of the fame field, cult mated according to 

 the old, and according to the new hufhandry. 



'•*'~r^ HIS field, which is of a very good and flrong foil, was very 

 -■- badly plowed laft year, by reafon of the frequent and heavy 

 rains, and had not been dunged for feveral years. In the common 

 way, itufed to be fowedwith 318 pounds of wheat. This year it 

 was made into beds of fix feet wide, and fowed on the twenty-fifth 

 of September with i o pounds of wheat, 

 t 

 Produce of this field under the neiv culture in 1752. 



•* This field, laid out in beds, produced of very fine large 7 ,,., 

 grain'd wheat> . . . . . . j 



To he deduBed. 



" Tho' this wheat was very clean, yet four parts "1 

 in an hundred were fifted from it, as fmall corn; > 371b. "1 

 valued at ..... . J ^ 47lbk 



*♦ For the feed fown ... . . 10 lb. J 



Neat produce . . 8791b, 



" In this hufbandry, the fame field is fbwed every year;"] 

 fo that, fuppofing the crop of 1753 to be only equal to I « ,, 

 this of 1752, (and there is no doubt but it will be greater) ( '" 

 it will again produce ..... -^ 



unmount of the two crops. , ^ 17581b. 



Produce 



