Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. ly^ 



gave no room to hope for much fuccefs. About 40 acres, which 

 were the lafl fowed, were dunged : but thefe yielded the leaft crop 

 of any. 



" This great extent of ground was fowed with 9932 pounds of 

 wheat. To have fown it all in the common way, would have 

 required 29524 pounds of wheat. Confequently here is a faving 

 of 19592 pounds of wheat, in the feed. 



" The foil of thefe fields being of different qualities, their pro- 

 duce was proportioned thereto, varying from exceeding good to 

 very bad. The 150 acres yielded in all 86058 poifnds of wheat. 

 The crop would have been more confiderable, if about 30 acres 

 had not been greatly damaged by hail. The lofs it occafioned, 

 fhews plainly the great probability of having larger returns in other 

 years, when we become more perfedl in the pradtice of the new 

 hufbandry, to the want of which the bad fuccefs of this firll trial 

 has certainly been owing in a great meafure. All the lands of this 

 farm are now fowed again with the drill-plough. They confifl 

 of about 200 acres, and afford a pleafmg profpedt for the enfuing 

 harvefl." 



EXPERIMENT. No. XIII. 



Field of four acres was fowed in the middle of Odtoberwith 



243 pounds of wheat. It ufed generally to require about 



850 pounds. It yielded 2268 pounds'. Ti^/V, adds the perfon who 



has lent me this account, is as much as I have had from any other 



field /owed in the old way." 



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EXPERIMENT. No. XIV. 



** '"p* H E fame perfon who made the foregoing experiment, fowed 

 -■' another field of about four acres and a half, of a poorer 

 and colder foil, towards the middle of November, with 333 pounds 

 of wheat. In the old way, it ufed to be fowed with 972 pounds. 

 It yielded 1260 pounds. The corn in this field remained thin. 

 It did not branch fo well as that of the former. The perfon who 

 fends me this account of thefe two experiments, adds : It mufl be 

 obferved, that the drought, as well of the autumn as of the fpring, 

 was unfavourable, efpecially to the late fown wheat. Thefe expe- 

 riments have encouraged me to purchafe a drill-plough, and to 

 fow all my lands with it in equally diflant rows, according to the 

 Xicw method, this year 1753 : only I have obferved to fow earlier, 

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