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viz. between the middle of Auguft and the middle of September ; 

 and thicker, that is to fay, 45 pounds, on the fame extent of 

 ground where I fowed but 34 pounds and an half, and 41 pounds 

 and an half in 1752. My plants, hitherto, make a fine appear- 

 ance, and are very thick : their blades are large, and the whole is 

 in sreat vio;our." 



EXPERIMENT. No, XV. 



*' T Have extended my experiments to an eftate where I have not 

 -*■ time to make any long ftay myfelf, fo that what is done there 

 is left to the difcretion of fervants, whofe eye, as is well known, 

 is not like that of the m after. 



" The lands of this place are very poor: they produce little corn, 

 but very good. In 1752, they were very badly plov/ed, and this 

 plowing was fpoilt by the rains, juft as the ground was going to be 

 ibwed. I ordered the whole to be fowed with the drill-plough, 

 except two acres, which were fown in the old way. Some few 

 fields were a little better plowed than the reft. Thefe produced 

 pretty good wheat. The others were very poor. However, I 

 have reafon to be pleafed with my having fowed in this manner. 

 I judge of it by the produce of the two acres which were fown in 

 the common way, and which yielded me no more than exadlly the 

 quantity of the feed beftowed upon them. 



" The true caufe of this was the bad condition of the lands. 

 They are in much better tilth this year. All of them have been 

 fown with the drill -plough, in a favourable feafon, and my fervants 

 a/Ture me that the corn rifes finely." 



ARTICLE V. 



Account of the crops produced durhig fixteenfuccejjive years, by fields 

 cultivated and fowed m the common way, and of which part was 

 conJla?2tly dunged ; co?npared with a crop of the fame fields cultivated 

 without dung, according to the new hufbandry, even fuppofmg them 

 not to yield more than they did In 1753, which was their fir ji cropy 

 and which was greatly dlmlnlfied by the unforefeen and extraordinary 

 accidents already ?)ientloned. 



"' npHE refult of our experiments would be of little ufe, if it 



■*■ extended no farther than our own private inftrudtion. To 



render it of more general femce, we fhall here give a comparifon of 



2 the 



