i86 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part 11. 



«* The lands on which it has been already praftifed, leave no room 

 to doubt that all its operations may be performed with eafe : and at 

 the fame time they prove to every one who fliall be inclined to cul- 

 tivate any part of their farms in the fame way, that they may do 

 it with equal advantage. 



'* Convenient inftruments for executing this culture are already 

 invented and made. The ufe that has been, and ftill is made Sf 

 them, ought to increafe our confidence in them. It is by their means 

 that the two moft effential articles towards fecuring fuccefs, are ob- 

 tained : the firft is, the means of forming, plowing, and cultivating 

 the beds, with great eafe and little expence : the fecond, that of fow- 

 ing land more regularly, and of giving it the exact quantity of feed 

 that may be thought moft proper, by means of the drill-plough,, 

 which buries the feed at its proper depth in the furrows, covers it 

 over, and, in fhort, does the whole bulinefs of fowing witla great 

 difpatch, and a confiderable faving of feed. 



" The chief obftacles being now removed, we may reafonably 

 hope that the new hufbandry will gain ground every year. Numbers 

 of intelligent perfons, truly zealous for the public good, have leea 

 how my lands were cultivated, and have been curious enough to be 

 prefent at all the operations of this culture. They have frequently- 

 told me, that the public have not a right notion either of the new 

 hulbandry in general, or of the eafe with which it is performed. 

 They themfelves have wondered at it, and prefTed me to publifh a 

 circumftantial account of the manner in which I have introduced 

 this new method in our country, that they too might inftrudl their 

 countrymen therein. I have yielded to their follicitations ; and fliall 

 continue to communicate my farther obfervations in this fourth year 

 of my practice of the new hulbandry. 



SECTION IV. 



Experiments made hy M. Lullin de Chateau-vieux, in the year 1754. 



*' "|\/rY experiments in the year 1754, will afford a frefh proof of 

 ^^ what I faid in my accounts of thofe of the preceding years, 

 viz. that land, by continuing to be cultivated in the new way, will 

 become more fertile, and produce greater crops even the fecond or 

 third year ; becaufe the earth will then be in a loofer ftate, which is 

 highly neceffary to procure plentiful productions. 



«♦ This proof ought to be received with fo mucE the more con- 

 fidence 



