i88 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part IL. 



" The fixth article will contain an account of the produce of feveral 

 fields fowed in equally diflant rows, with the drill-plough. 



" In the feventh, I Ihall make fome general obfervations on the- 

 experiments contained in the foregoing articles. 



" I fhall fpeak in the eighth article, of the experiments I have made 

 on beds fowed with fix rows of wheat ; and compare their produce 

 with that of others, fowed with only tlxree rows. The refult of this 

 will enable us to judge how many rov/sit maybebeft tofow. 



" In the ninth article, I give a circumftantiai detail of an experi- 

 ment which I made in order to be more fure oi the bcjl way offow^ 

 ing the beds; and to be able to determine more exadlly what quan- 

 tity of feed is moft likely to produce the greateil crop., 



" Before I enter upon either of thefe fubjedts, it will be proper to 

 cbferve, that I have ufed no dung, or any fort of manure, for my 

 fields or beds ; purpofely to be the more certain of the effects of thig 

 new culture, and to fee what land could do by mere dint of ftirring 

 it. My dung has been laid,- as ufual, upon my grafs lands, where it 

 continues to be of wonderful advantage. 



" I fliall ufe the fame weights and meafures as in my former ex- 

 periments, viz_. the toife of thirty-fix feet, and the pound o£ 

 1 6 ounces., 



ARTICLE I.. 



Experiments made on lands formed into beds,, which have yielded a third 

 and a fourth fuccejive crop: with fome obfrvations particularly- 

 relating thereto. 



E X P E R I M E N T, No. I. 



N. B. I'hisfeld is marked with the fame number in the journals of 



^7S^'P- ^39 » ^75^>P- H5 J ^^^^753' P- ^^°^ '^"^ is the fpot 

 on which I made my fir ft experiment in 17 S^- ^^'-^ '•^ the fourth fitc- 

 cefftije crop. 



i< /-pv II E fmall fpot of ground on which I made the experiment T 

 ■*• am going to fpeak of, being only a fmgle bed, 1,60 feet long 

 and five feet wide, would not deferve to be taken notice of in this ac- 

 count, were it not for a circumflance extremely remarkablcj and the 

 more worthy of attention, as the fuccefs it was attended with, affords 

 an unexpedled and indifputable proof of the fruitfulnefs which may be 

 cxpecStd from lands cultivated, in' the new way. If farmers will but; 

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