Chap. 11. BY M. DE CHATE AU-VIEUX. 1.9.5 



earth had nourifhed, it feemed to me that it could yet bear a greater 

 number, and that I might ftill exped: a greater crop, by adding to 

 the feed. 



•' Accordingly I fowed it on the fixtcenth of Auguft, with 61 

 pounds 14 ounces of very large and perfeftly clean wheat, of my 

 own growth. It was the fame that I ufed for lowing all my fields. 



" The plants made a very confiderable progrefs after winter, and 

 fliot up greatly, notwithftanding the extraordinary drought. They 

 began to fpindle the eighteenth of May, they bloflbmed the firfl of 

 June; and, being ripe, I cut them down the tenth of July. 



" I had them threfhed a month after harveft. They yielded 1820 

 -pounds of perfectly clean wheat. Thus we fee that this field pro- 

 duced in i754> 245 pounds more than in 1753, and 778 pounds 

 4 ounces more than in 1752. 



EXPERIMENT. No. III. 



N. B. 'Thisjield is marked iso'ith the fame number in the "Journal of 



^7Sl- (P-i65.) 



*' -T^ HIS field being now in much finer tilth than it was lafi: year, 

 -*■ would certainly have produced a greater quantity of wheat. 

 However, I refolved to fow it with a foreign wheat, by way of trial. 

 .1 did fo, and it yielded me fcarce any crop at all. 



" I thought it might be of great fervice to try whether wheat of a 

 different quality from that which we ufually cultivate, would not 

 yield more than even wheat of the growth of our own country. At 

 all events it was right to make this trial, tho' the wheat I ufed for it 

 was by no means proper for fowing in our land. It was Sicilian 

 wheat, the grain of which is very large and extremely hard. I fowed it 

 on the twenty-firfl of Auguft. It rofe well j the plants grew very fine 

 before winter, and were extremely thick. But this wheat, being 

 doubtlefs of a much tenderer nature than our common wheat, could 

 not refift the winter's froft, which almoft entirely deftroyed it. Only 

 a few llrong plants efcaped. They grev/ exceeding fine, branched 

 greatly, and produced very large ears, which contained more grains 

 than rhofe of our own country wheat. As the plants which fur- 

 vived the froft were very few, I reaped only about three times the 

 feed. 



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