V7% EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part IL 



** Lailly, the hail we mentioned before, greatly diminifhed the 

 crop* ; which, independent of that accident, would not have been, 

 plentiful. ,;^-w,-f,j ,;-.-3^^raj-i . 



" The owner of this^field, after remarking the bad confequencesy 

 w^e have been fpeaking of, arifing from the defedt of culture, has- 

 endeavoured to remedy them, by giving, after harveft, feveral plov/- 

 ing?, which have broken and divided the earth more thoroughly, 

 and prepared the beds for being fowed in good time : the quantity 

 of feed has likewife been increafed j the plants have had time to- 

 get ftrength before winter, and their prefent flate promifes that 

 the next crop will be better. Far from being difcouraged by the 

 bad fuccefs of a firft trial, the perfon we are fpeaking of, convinced- 

 of the excellence of the new hufbandry, is but the more refoived* 

 to puriue it. He juftly afcribes the fcantinefs of this crop not to. 

 any defeft in the principles of the new huibandty, but folely to its 

 having been badly executed the firft year. He foon perceivjed that, 

 thefe. faults might eafily be remedied, the fecond year -, and there- 

 fore has not only continued to cultivate and fow the fame field, but. 

 l\as likewiie fowed at leaft twenty-five acres more m^ade in, beds, 

 which have been much better plowed than thofe of lafl year: every 

 circumflance of the new culture has been duly attended to, and- 

 the corn, even now, promifes a more plentiful return." 



E X P E R I M E N T. No. IX. 



•"^'QMALL experiments have led to much greater. As thofe. 



^ fmall ones are neceffary at firft, not only to create a confi-' 

 dence in the new hulbandry, but likewife to accuftom people tot 

 the pradtices which it requires, I fhall relate one of this kind,' 

 made by a perfon who has adopted the new hufbandry from prin-- 

 ciple, and who is every way qualified to inftruift us, and to execute 

 well what he has once conceived to be right. . 



" A piece of ground, 45 toifes long, and four toifes three feet 

 wide, was made into fix beds, to be fowed with only two rows._ 

 This fpot could not be prepared till the firft week in September,, 

 nor fowed till the 24th of Odlober. The earth was very dry, ancf" 

 the wheat rofe unequally, and made little progrefs before winter. . 

 By a negligence in the firft hoeing, almoft entire rows of the plants- 

 were torn up. In proportion to what was; reaped, this little fpot- 

 would have yielded 180 pounds of very fine wheat. 



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* It is thought to have deftroyed above half of it* 



