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One perfon, convinced of its excellency, has laid out and fowed at 

 leaft twenty-eight acres in beds : another has fowed with the drill- 

 plough, an hundred and fifty acres plowed in broad lands. All the 

 land that has been fowed in beds ^mounts to about fifty acres, and 

 upwards of two hundred acres in broad lands have been fown with 

 the drill-plough. Every one who has feen thefe grounds, even the 

 very plowmen not excepted, agree that they look extremely well, 

 and that they never faw in this country plants of fuch flrength and 

 vigour, as the wheat that was firll fown. 



♦' I am extremely happy that my drill-plough has been of fo 

 general ufe. It has every where done its bufinefs very regularly, 

 people having fowed with it the exa<5l quantity of grain they have 

 defired." 



SECT. III. 



Expen?nents viadt by M. Lull in de Chateau-vieux, 



in the year iyS3- 



" T AM the better pleafed that I am able to give a fatlsfaftory 



-*■ account of the fuccefs of my experiments this year, as the 

 feafons have not been favourable, and extraordinary accidents have 

 greatly diminiflied the produce of the crops. 



" I ihall divide this account into feveral articles : 



•' The firfl will contain the experiments made on lands laid out 

 in beds, which have borne their fecond and third crop. To this 

 will be added fome obfervations relative thereto. 



" The fubjed: of the fecond will be a detail of experiments made 

 on lands formed into beds, which have yielded only their firft crop. 

 This too will be followed by fome remarks. 



" The third will confift of the experiments of two perfons, on 

 lands made into beds, of which the firft crop was reaped this year : 

 to which will be fubjoined fome neceflary refiedlions. 



" The fourth article will contain an account of feveral experi- 

 ments made by divers lovers of Agriculture, on lands fown in 

 equally diftant rows, but with the drill-plough. 



" As we think it will be extremely ufeful to fliew, by the 

 experiments which have been made this year, that lands produce 

 more corn by the new hufbandry, than by the old ; we fhall give 

 an account, in the fifth article, of the crops of fields fown in the 

 common way for fixteen years together j and of thofe of the fame 

 fields cultivated according to the new hulbandry, fuppofing them 

 2 not 



