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public welfare, be moft beneficial to the owners of lands, and bid 

 fairefl to fecure their produdlions. 



" Let us now compare the produce of each half of this field. 

 It will convince us of a truth of great confequence to be known, 

 viz. that land will produce much more corn when cultivated in 

 beds according to the new hufbandry, than when it is only fowed 

 in equally diilant rows with the drill-plough ; though this lad 

 method is indifputably better than the old huibandry. 



" We have leen that the part of this field, which was fowed in 

 equally diftant rows with the drill-plough, produced 5 3 86 pounds- 

 of wheat. If it is continued to be cultivated in the fame manner, 

 it will be in fallow in 1754, and yield no produce: and thus it 

 will bring a crop only every other year. 



" The other part of this field, which we formed into beds, pro- 

 duced 3370 pounds of wheat, and is already fown again for a crop 

 to be reaped in 1754. Suppofing this crop to be only equal to that 

 of 1753, the produce of the two years will be 6740 pounds of wheat. 

 Hence it is evident, that, in two years, the produce of the beds wiil 

 be 1354 pounds greater than that of the rows. This difference is 

 very confiderable : and if we would fee it in a yet flronger light, 

 let us extend the fame calculation to a longer time ; for example, to 

 ten years, during which the part fowed in rows will yield only five 

 crops, which at 5386 pounds a crop, will amount in all to 26g3olb. 

 *' The part fowed in beds will yield ten crops, which ) - ^_^ it^ 



at 3370 pounds a crop, make . . fi.)/ 



«< The difference in favour of the beds will therefore) ^ ,, 

 , . ^ J. 6770 Id, 



be in ten years . . . ' S 



" We here fuppofe the feafons to be, in every refpetft, like the 

 year 1753- But as our obfervations have conftantly fliewn that 

 the crops are always greater after the firft year, which is likewifc 

 juflified by the firfl, fecond, and third experiments, we may even 

 now venture to pronounce, that the part of our field, which is 

 fowed in beds, in order to be reaped in the year 1754, and which 

 now makes a promifing appearance, will yield double the quantity 

 it did in 1753. The profit will therefore be much more confider- 

 able than we have made it in the above calculation. 



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