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tvas deeper llirrcd and made much loofer than in 1752. I had al- 

 ready attained ahnoft a perfed: tihh, and eafily forefaw that I might 

 quite complete it in 1753. Ul tis-sb apr. , 



" Whilft I laboured aiTiduoufly in the culture of wheat, from 

 which I would not lufFer any thing to divert my intention too much, 

 till I fliould arrive at a good and certain practice of the new huf- 

 bandry ; I neverthelefs determined to begin experiments on lucerne 

 and fain-foin, to cultivate them nearly in the fame manner as wheat. 

 What prompted me to this, was the fuccefs of a fmall experiment 

 the year before. Accordingly, taking this objedl likewife into fe- 

 rious confideration, I refolved to leave a part of this field for lucerne, 

 and to fow the reft with wheat. It contained in all 1650 fquare 

 toifes, formed into 45 beds. I left for the lucerne, nine beds, the 

 extent of which was 303 fquare toifes ; and deftined the furplus to 

 to be fowed with wheat, as before. I am now very attentive to the 

 experiments on lucerne and fain-foin, and fliall begin next year 

 to give an account of them, and of my manner of proceeding. My 

 pradlice in this, will be found different, in many refpedls, from the 

 method which is commonly purfued. I will venture to affirm, that 

 tliere will be room to be fatisfied with the fuccefs of this branch of 

 hufbandry, than which- none can be more interefling: plenty of 

 fodder being as neceffary as plenty of corn. 



"I muft therefore beg leave to give the produce of this field, as if 

 the whole of it had been fowed with wheat. This I do, in order 

 to compare the produce of 1753, with that of 1752; as it cannot 

 be doubted but that the nine beds now under lucerne, would each 

 of them have yielded as much wheat, as any of the beds did that, 

 were fown with it : nay, perhaps fome pounds more : the lucerne 

 being fown in what I thought the richeft part of the field.. This 

 field was fowed on- the firft of September. I increafed the quantity 

 (jffeed, fowing this tim.e thirty.four pounds fourteen ounces of wheat; 

 whereas in 1751,. I fowed but eleven pounds four ounces.. Though 

 I fowed this year more than thrice the weight of feed thxit I did in 

 1 75 1, it muft not be inferred that I tripled the number of grains 

 capable of producing plants; becaufe this year's fowing was made 

 with wheat of the produce of the new culture, the grainsof which 

 are much larger than thofe of the common wheat v.'hich I ufed in 

 E751, andf of which a greater number is confequently required to 

 make up an equal v/eight.. 



"^-This wheat.haying_been, fown pretty.early, its plants had time to 



