178 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



we ftiall have fixteen crops inftead of eight : fo that multiplying the- 

 iirft year's crop, 6740 pounds, by fixteen, the total produce will be 

 107840 pounds: to which mud be added that of the experiment 

 No. V, which was 2205 pounds; which being alfo multiplied by 

 fixteen, will produce a farther quantity of 35280 pounds for the fix- 

 teen crops. This, added to the amount of the experiment No. IV^ 

 will maice in all 143 120 pounds of wheat for the fixteen years. 



"If we afterwards dedu(fl from this the quantity-) 

 of feed ufed in thefe two fields during the fixteen / 

 years, which amounts to 8016 pounds, the neat pro- [ 35i04lb- 

 duce will be . . . . J 



"In the old way, the fame fields would produce 1 ,, 



in fixteen years, only . ... J °4733 ^°' 



" The difference, in favour of the new culture, is 7 ., 



therefore ■ } 3037^ lb. 



** Befides the advantage of reaping a much greater quantity of corn,, 

 there are others which highly merit our attention.. This corn is not. 

 mixed with any feeds of weeds, and its quality is greatly improved 

 by the abundance of nourifliment which the plants are fupplied with 

 by the frequent ftirrings of the earth in this hufijandry, more thanv 

 in the old. 



" But how fine aprofpedl; does the propofition which we advanced-' 

 before, afford us yet beyond all this ! vrz. That the crops of the- 

 fecond and following years, would be ftUl more plentiful than- 

 the firft. What fome might then think only an objed; of hope 

 and fpeculation, is already realized, and proved by experiments.. 

 All this deferves the moft ferious attention. The ntw hufbandry 

 will certainly, in time, acquire a fuperiority over the old, greateir 

 than we can now imagine. 



ARTICLE VI. 



Proofs that the heji field hi the country y tho the great ejl part of it was 

 dunged, yielded lefs ivheat than thoje of the experiments No. II. and 

 XI, in which no dung was ufed. 



«<'-p'HE proofs of the advantages of the new hufbandry cannot 

 ^ be multiplied too much ; and all thofe which are the refult 

 of experience, deferve to be communicated to the public. 



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