158 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part 11. 



" The fields did not look fo poor to the eye, as this feparation 

 proved them to be. This firft operation was therefore neceffary to 

 come at the truth : 



" On clearing the grain from the ears, I found that the 400 ears 

 contained five ounces and a half of wheat, and that the 1600 con- 

 tained feven ounces. 



" My curiofity did not lead me to inquire into the contents of 

 the third parcel ; knowing that there was no good grain in it. 



" In the purfuit of this inquiry, I found that taking one tit 

 with another, of the 400, there were but eleven grams of wheat in 

 each; and that in the 1600, taking one ear with another, there 

 were but three grains and an half to an ear. Eight hundred of 

 thefe grains weiglied but -an ounce. 



" If we add thefe parcels together, we fliall find that 2000 ears 

 yielded but 12 ounces and an half of wheat, and that it would 

 require 2890 ears of the fame goodnefs to yield 18 ounces. 



" I confefs I was aftonilhed at the refult of my inquiry ; which 

 I could not have believed, had I not ittw it. But at the fame 

 time, how greatly was my expedtation raifed of the advantages of 

 the new culture ! 



*' I have this year formed a greater extent of ground into beds. 

 The too frequent rains have prevented my laying down more than 

 30 acres in this manner : but I have fowed all the reft of my farm 

 with the drill-plough in equally diftant rows. I have increafed 

 the quantity of feed ; regard being had to each circumftance necef- 

 fary to be attended to; fo that in fome fields I have fowed double 

 the quantity of feed that was employed in the year 1751 i in others 

 fomewhat more, and in others again lefs. 



" All my fields look extremely well, and make a much better 

 appearance than they did laft year. They are abundantly flocked 

 with very ftrong plants, of a deep green colour: the blades are long 

 and large, and cover the earth better than the common wheat. 



" Hitherto, thefe plants have fuflained no lofs, except in one 

 fpot of about half an acre, where they were gnawed afunder, jiffl 

 under the furface of the earth, by infedls. I immediately fov/ed 

 it again, and by this means have quite made up the lofs. The 

 infedts have not appeared fince. 



" One of the moft happy effedls of my experiments, is, that 

 they have created a defire in many perfons in thefe parts, to begin 

 the pradice of the new hulbandry, by trials of confiderable extent. 



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