I70 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT^. .TPartJI. 



EXPERIMENT. No. V, 

 « A-|-^J^IS field is of a very lliit foil. It contains 6112 fquare 

 -■• toifes, and lies floping towards the Weft. The beds were 

 well formed, but the earth could not be fufficiently broken, nor 

 could it be Ibwn early enough, on account of the frequent rains. 

 It was fowed on the 8th and 25th ot September, with 139 pounds 

 of wheat. The corn came up well, and made a fine appearance 

 before winter, it throve well during the fpring, and when ripe, I 

 cut it down, viz. on the 14th and 28th of July, and the crop 

 yielded 2205 pounds of very fine wheat." 



EXPERIMENT. No. VL 



" 'T^HIS field was reaped in 1752, and immediately formed 

 -■' into beds, with a defign to low it that fame year. I could' 

 not expedt that land in fo bad tilth could produce n^uch. All I 

 aimed at in what v/as done, was to* form it into beds a )rear the 

 fooner. It contained 1928 toifes, and was fowed with 45 pounds 

 of wheat, which yielded 724 pounds." 



EXPERIMENT. No. VII. 



«* TV/f Y defire to praftife the new hufbandry upon all my lands,. 

 ^^ as foon as pofiible, made me plow another field, which, 

 had likewife been reaped in 1752. I could however lay only a 

 part of it out in beds : the reft was fowed in equally diftaut rows 

 with the drill-plough. This field could have but one plowing : 

 nor could that be completed, tho' feveral ploughs were employed,, 

 till the 1 5th, 17th, and 18 th of November. The earth was fo moift, 

 that it divided only into large clods. However, I fowed it foon. 

 after plowing, not expedling a great crop*. The extent of this 

 field is about 8213 toifes. It was fowed with 412 pounds of 

 wheat, of which only a fmall part rofe before winter. The numbei" 

 of plants increafed greatly in the fpring : they could not branch fo; 

 much as thofe of the foregoing experiment,, and the grain begifi- 

 ning to look a little (hrivelled, I cut it down on the 21ft, 23d, andi 

 24th of July. Though this wheat had fuflfered the fame accidents 

 as the other, yet it yielded 2646 pounds-f-." 



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* If, fays M. Duhamel, M. De Chateau-vieux had continued to plow his lands in. 

 order to fow them with fpring wheat, he would have begun the new huftandry with a; 

 crop almof\ as good as that of winter wheat. 



+ We fee,, from this exeeriment, that a diminution of tillage greatly leflcns the crog^ 



