Chap.H. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. i6t 



which "it is of confequehce toeflabliili. ■ lean therefore only affirm 

 by conjeclurc, that this crop would have been greater. It is true, 

 my conjeilures are fo ftrong, that they amount ahnoft to a demon- 

 ftration-. ' • . • - '- ' . 



" I draw them from hence : that the corn had a very fine appear- 

 ance before winter; that the plants grew with great firength in the 

 fpringj that they branched more than formerly; that the ears were 

 certainly larger; that they bloffomed extremely well; (they were 

 in full bloom by the thirtieth of May;) and laftly, that there is more 

 iiraw than in 1752. 



** It neceflarily follows from hence, that had it not been for the 

 hail and torrents of water, the crop would have been greater than 

 in:i752. _ 



■■ "■ Though the following experiment fuffered the fame accidents, 

 (except that the beds were not broken up by the water,) it will fup- 

 ply the want of that information which we were deprived^ of in the 

 other, . and flrengthen our conjectures." 'v)'-: r 



EXPERIMENT, No. II. 



N. B. This experhneiit is marked with the fame number in the year 



" A S I hope this experiment will be found very inftrudive, I 

 jLjL fliall relate it with the fame care that I executed it. I there- 

 fore beg it may be particularly attended to; for it will confirm the 

 advantages of the new hufbandry. But before I enter into a detail, 

 of which I (ball endeavour not to omit any effential circumftance, . 

 it is neceflary to repeat here, that, in the journal of 1751, I faid, 

 I . That the plowings which had been given the earth in order to 

 its- being fown in 1752, had not loofened it fufficiently, and that 

 I tried to remedy this defed: by fubfequent culture. 2. That this 

 field was fowed on the twenty-fifth of September with eleven 

 pounds and four ounces of wheat. 3 . That the crop yielded a thou- 

 fand and forty two pounds twelve ounces : and laftly, that the ap- 

 pearance of the young plants promifed a much greater crop in 1753. 

 ♦' The culture beftowed upon thefe lands in 1752, rendered them 

 more and more loofe and well divided, fo that with only one plow- 

 ing after harvell, which was performed with the utmoll eafe, I 

 formed nev/ beds, the ridge of which was now in the place where 

 the furrov^^ in the middle of the alleys was before. But the earth 



Y was 



