Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 173 



♦' A meafure of oats which was fowed in beds in a proper feafon, 

 yielded an hundred and twelve meafures. 



" Encouraged by this fuccefs, the fame perfon intends to prac- 

 tife the new huibandry in a larger way. He has already formed 

 a'bout ten acres into beds, which are now fown : and he will con- 

 tinue in i'755-. and the following years, to lay out twelve acres a 

 year in beds, till he has difpofed all his lands in that manner. 



*' Another thing intended by this experiment, was, to know 

 whether two- rows would not produce a larger crop, in propor- 

 tion, than three. The fuccefs of this promifes very fair ; but it 

 will be right to continue trying it, and likewife to fee what mul-' 

 tiplying the rows v/ill do. We fhall fpeak of this hereafter, in- 

 order to determine, by real produds, what number of rows will' 

 befl fuit this hufbandry." 



A R T I C L E I^T. 



Experiments made on fields fiiwed in equally diftant rows with the . 

 drill-plough, by federal lovers of agriculture. ^ 



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



"■ '"T^HIS, and, the following experiment, were made by the fame 



■*■ perfon who made the feventh, mentioned in our journal of 

 1752, (p. 153.) the refult of which encouraged him to proceed to 

 large ones, and to prove the advantages of this hufbandry, by new 

 examples. To be the more exaft in thefe experiments, he refolved 

 to try the old and the new hufbandry in the fame field i 



" For this purpofe he chofe a field,, the foil of which is reckoned 

 equally good in every part. The whole extent is 6727 toifes and 

 18 feet-. Of this, 3502 toifes 18 feet were deftined to be fown in 

 the old way, and 3225 toifes to be fown in equally diftant rows 

 with the drill-plough. The whole field was equally plowed' and 

 dunged, and fowed the fame day, viz. the 19th of September, with 

 the fame wheat. In fhort, there was no other difference than in 

 the quantity of feed, and the manner of fowing it, 



" The- part of this field which was fowed in the old' way took up 

 698 pounds lo ounces of wheat, which produced 2969 pounds of 

 very fine grain. This is about four and a quaiicr for one. 



" The other part of the field was fowed with the drill-plough",' 

 with 243 pounds, which yielded 3 187 pounds two ounces of very fine 



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