Chap. TI. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 165 



remaining is 1540 pounds two ounces. Confequently, in 1753* this 

 field produced 533 pounds four ounces mofe than in 1752, inchid- 

 ing what was faved in the feed. 



" The grain of this wheat was very large, and fo clean, that it did 

 not want fifting. It yielded plenty of very fine liour, which made 

 exceeding white and well tailed bread.'" 



EXPERIMENT, No. III. 



N. B.. This field is marked loith the fame tiurnber in the yenr 1752.L 



(p. 150.) 



"''"T^H IS field: contains 1 344 101165, and was but in poor tilth. It 

 -*■ wasfowed on the twenty-fourth of September 1 75 r, with feven 

 pounds of wheat, and yielded 441 pounds. 



" It was brought into better tilth in 1752, but the beds were not' 

 raifed high enough: I would have given them another plowing, had 

 not the r;'.iny leafon prevented me. They v.-ere fown on the eighth 

 of September, with 24 pounds 12 ounces of very large grained 

 wheat. The plants were very fine before winter, and the rows 

 were well filled. In fpring, I found that there were fewer plants than 

 in- autumn: infers had deftroyed fever al of them. Ilikeivife- im- 

 puted the lofs of many to- the flatnefs of the beds. The plants ac- 

 quired frefii vigour after the winter, made ftrong flioots, and branch- 

 ed extremely well. I treated this field in the fame manner as the 

 form.er. The plants made nearly the fame progrefs. They were 

 reaped on the fourteenth of July, and yielded 724 pounds 8 ounces. 

 Thus we fee that this field yielded 283 pounds 8 ounces more in 

 1753, than in 1752. 



Obfcrvations on thefe experiments. 

 "T Obferved in my former experiments, that as the mould was nof - 

 •'"■■ futficiently looiened, the fields which were laid out in beds could 

 not produce fo plentiful a crop the firft year^ as they would the fe- 

 cond or third, when the earth fhould be more thoroughly di- 

 vided. It is evident, that whoever fliould have given up the new 

 huibandry, on the bad fuccefs of the firfi: year, would- have deceived 

 himfelf. Thefe experiments plainly fiiew, that the charge of the firfl 

 year is fullv compenfated by the profit of the fecond, and that this 

 profit will increafe from year to year. 



" Whoever now. tiies the new. hulhandfy, may realbnably expect 



bet*- 



