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the feafon, and the better or worfe condition of the ground. I think 

 top, that in the firft, and even the fecond year of the trials which 

 may be made, it will be proper to fow a little thicker than I did in 

 1752. The farmer will eafily perceive, that when his lands are well, 

 loofened and brought to a good tilth, they will require lefs feed : 

 but till then, he will do well not to be over-fparing of it. 



" 10. We cannot yet determine fo exadlly as we could wiflijwhat 

 breadth the beds, including the alleys, fliould be of, to make the 

 ground produce the greateft quantity of corn ; nor whether it would 

 be beft to fow more or lefs than three rows. We confefs that we 

 fliould be glad to fee a longer feries of accurate experiments, and to 

 have a greater knowledge of this matter, before we pretend to iixit.. 

 Our beds have always been about fix feet wide. 



'• Mr. Duhameljwho firft introduced this new hufbandr)Mn France, 

 intends to make experiments by fowing only two rows. If they 

 fhould yield more grain, the width of the beds may certainly be dimi- 

 nilhed : and as it is of confequence to multiply and vary experi- 

 ments, in order to determine this point, we now have feveral beds 

 fowed, fome in two, and fome in three rows. I have likewife tried 

 what multiplying the number of rows in fome fields would do ; and 

 the refult of this experiment promifes an advantage in that way of 

 fowing. The fuccefs of this firll trial was as follows. 



" When the field of the experiment No. 2. was fowed, I obfened 

 among the reft ten beds which the plowman had made wider than 

 the others. I was forry at firft, that any part of the ground fliould 

 be loft : but upon thinking farther of it, I determined to fow thofe 

 beds with two turns of the drill-plough, and confequently to plant 

 them with fix rows of wheat. 1 did fo : and when the firft plow- 

 ing after winter was given, little regard was paid to the two out- 

 fide rows, which were torn up by the plough in feveral parts, fo 

 that there remained but four or five rows in thofe places. 



" The wheat of thefe beds grew* as high and branched as much 

 as that of the others, in which there were but three rows, not ex- 

 cepting even the middle row. I examined them frequently, with 

 great care, and was affifted therein by feveral perfons very capable 

 of judging and making good obfervations. The only. difference we 

 could diftingilifli, and that icas fcarccly perceptible, was in the ears, 

 which we thought rather the Ihorteft in the middle rows : but as 

 there was a greater quantity of them, we judged that thele beds 

 would yield moft grain.. 



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