i6o EXPERIMENTS ON" WHEAT, Part IL 



not to yield better crops in future years, than they have done ia 

 this : a fuppofition the leaft favourable that can be to the new cul- 

 ture, lince we calculate only upon the produce of the firft year's 

 crop, and that too diminiflied by the extraordinary accidents which 

 we fhall mention. <, f .,- . 



^ " To fliew the truth of this article more fully, it will be proved 

 in the fixth, that the beft field in the country, though it had been 

 well dunged, yielded lefs wheat than thofe on which the experi- 

 ments were made, and on which no dung was ufed. 



" The feventh article will confift of reliedlions and obfervations 

 on our pradlice of the new hufbandry j and the eighth will fliew 

 the difpofition of our lands for the crop in 1754. 



" To avoid repetitions, we fhall obferve here, once for all, that 

 no dung or other manure was ufed in any of our fields ; that the 

 extent of all our fields is computed by fquare toifes, of thirty-fix 

 fquare feet to the toife, and that our pound confifls of fixteen 

 ounces." 



A R T I C L E I. 



Experiments made on lands laid out in beds, ivhich had born a fecond 

 and third crop, withfome obfervations particularly relating thereto. 



EXPERIMENT. No. I. 



N. B.- 'This experiment is marked laith the fame number in the 



year 1752. (p. 145.) 

 .li-tr: b .". o:ni izin. 

 *• T Should have known the full produce of this third fucceflive 

 ■*■ crop on the beds of this field, continues M. de Chateau-vieux, 

 if the hail which fell on the third of June had not damaged it 

 greatly. The abundance of rain which fell at the fame time, and 

 immediately after the hail, did flill greater hurt ; for the earth of 

 part of the beds was waflied away by the torrents of water, fome 

 of the plants wei'e forced out of their places, others were entirely 

 covered v/ith earth, and many were torn up by the roots ; fo that 

 it was not poflible to judge what this year's produce would havp 

 been, by the few plants that were left. 



'. «f I am very foi-ry that this accident deprived me of a certain 

 proof, that this year's crop would have been more plentiful than 

 that of 1752: foiii it would have been evident, that the earth 

 becomes more and more fruitful by the new hufbandry : a truth, 



which 



