i84 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Vxrtlh 



♦' We were not miftaken; for their produce was as follows. The 

 ten beds which had been fowed with fix rows each, yielded 9 1 pounds 

 of wheat more than ten beds which were fowed with three rows 

 t-achi But, as this refult does not fet the matter in a fufficiently 

 dear light, we mufl have recourfe to the following calculation. 

 The fix row'd beds took up more ground than thofe which had but 

 three rows : two beds more might have been m'ade out of the fur- 

 plus of their breadth : fo that there would in that cafe have been 1 2 

 beds inftead of lo. The queftion therefore is,whether this ground, 

 made into 10 beds, produced more than it would have done if it 

 had been made into 12 beds of three rows each. To which I an- 

 fvver, that it did produce 38 pounds more : and that there was like- 

 wife a feventh part more flraw. 



" As this experiment deferved to be repeated, I have tried it in 

 a larger way. I have laid feveral acres out in beds of about {even. 

 feet wide : they are fowed with fix rows : the plants are very fine, 

 and I impatiently wait the event. 



"^ Though I have continued not to dung my fields, the plants 

 ftill grow very tall, and produce fine long ears, well filled with 

 plump grain. 



" I am indebted to the new husbandry for the recovery and im- 

 provement of worn-out meadows. They have already yielded me 

 plenty of fodder. The value of this {hould be added to the produce 

 of the fields ; becaufe the new hufbandry is the immediate caufe 

 that manure can be fpared to enrich thofe meadows. 



ARTICLE Vm. 



General dijfojition of the lands for the crop of 1754. 



" ripHE more I have Hudied the principles of the new hufbandry, 

 X the more I have been convinced of the advantages attend- 

 ing it. My experiments hav-e not only confirmed me in this opi- 

 nion ; but they have likewife fhewed me that my pradice has been 

 confiftent with thofe principles. This made me determine to lay 

 the whole of one of my farms out in the new way, as foon as pof- 

 libly I could.; its extent being no more than I can diredi almoft all 

 the whole culture of myfelf. 



" I have compleated it this year. All the fields, of which only 



Jialf ufed to be fowed every year in the old way, are now laid out 



in beds. I have fowed them all, with a defign to continue doing fo 



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