I^p EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Parti!-. 



in extraordinary fine tilth, aji.d enriched with manure. I therefore 

 Ipeak of our lands in general, taking good and bad together. In this 

 cafe, I fay, the produce, one year with another, will not exceed three 

 for one. 



" My fields have always been as well cultivated as any in the 

 country. I have computed the amount of my crops for fixteen years 

 running, viz. from 1730 to 1745, inclufively, Thef^ accounts 

 were carefully kept by a fteward who died a few years ago, and I 

 do not find that the produce ever was greater than what I have been 

 faying, one year with another. 



EXPERIMENT, No. IIi:' uizmsTs 



*'T Caufed a fpace of about I344fquare toifes of 36 feet, in another 

 -^ field, to. be laid out in beds hke the former. This land, which 

 is very flrong, was but in bad tilth, notwithflanding the care I took 

 to break the earth thoroughly, and r.educe it intg Irnajl particles. 

 The frequent rains were the .caufe of this. It was fowed with the 

 drill-plough on the twenty-fourth of September. Only feven pounds 

 of wlaeat were ufed. The plants rofe pretty well : but, towards the 

 end of autumn, they were deffroyed daily by infedts, and thereby 

 reduced: to a very frnall number, which greatly diminifhed the 

 crop. ;i-i,:i.r'>i;u ^^-arf: ; 



«' On the fixteenth of Odlober 1751, the alleye were plowed" for 

 the firft time before winter. 



'••*5 On the tenth and eleventh of March 1752, they received their 

 firfl plowing after winter. 



" On the firft of May, the ground was weeded. 



"On the twenty- third of May, the alleys received their fecond 

 flirring with the cultivator, and on the twelfth of June they were 

 plowed. 



" The plants which came up were very fine, and branched greatly: 

 the ears were like thofe of the experiments I have already mention- 

 ed, and the grain equally large. Tho' the produce was but 392 

 pounds, yet it is a fine crop for the fmall number of plants that 

 efcaped unhurt. 



" As I know the caufes to which the fcantinefs of this crop was 

 owing, I make no doubt but it will equal that of any of the other 

 fields next year. It was now fowed, for the fecond time, in the new 

 way. The rows are well flored with plants, and t|ie corn is in as 

 good condition as I could wifh. '*^*** - 



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