Chap. n. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 1^3 



Produce of the old hupandry. 



That part of the field which was fov/ed with the three meafures 

 of 106 pounds each, produced thrice the quantity of the feed, 

 mixed with bad grain. The fame meafure of this grain weighed 

 but 103 pounds. This field yields no more even in the beft years. 

 If the whole of it had been fowed in the old way, it would have 

 produced . . . . . 6i8olb. 



1^0 be dediiSled. 



Lofs by fifting, i^ per cent. It has often? Q27lb 1 



been 251b. znd -^o per cent. . . I ( 3^4-7^^' 



For the feed .^ . . 2i2olb.) 



Neat produce . • S^SS^h. 



Bal/ance in favour of the new method . ^ ajiolb. 



S843lb, 



T 



EXPERIMENT. No. VI.,-2ot x^ii3'.wr 



Sowed, continues M. De Chateau-vieux, another field of 

 about 1020 fquare toifes of 36 feet, in the fame manner, 

 with thirty pounds of wheat, reckoning 1 8 ounces to the pound, 

 on the twenty-fourth of September. The foil was ftrong; ' and in 

 fine tilth. The wheat grew in every refpeft like that of the pre- 

 ceding article, with this only perceptible difi"erence, that the ftraw 

 was fomewhat longer, and the ears larger. It was not threflied till 

 the beginning of December, and yielded 809 pounds of very fine 

 wheat (the pound 18 ounces). The produce of this field was 

 greater than that of the former, in proportion to the quantity of 

 feed. But the foil of this was better, anud in- finer tilth;"^''' "' ■ 



EXPERIMENT. No. VII. . 



" '~p*HIS experiment was made about three miles from me, on 

 ^ a piece of ground of the extent of about 880 fquare toifes. 

 This land is neither too ftrong, nor too light, and may be called 

 a pretty rich foil. It was plowed three times, like other lands, and 

 had not been dunged for many years. It ufed to be fowed with 

 165 or 170 pounds of wheat. It was now fowed on the 5th of 

 October, with only 24 pounds. Tho' the feafon was fo far ad- 



X vanced. 



