19^ EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAr,a -part 11. 



REMARKS on thefe EXPERIMENTS. 



«* T T is by experience that we can beft judge how far the advan* 



-*■ tages afcribed to the new hufcandry are real. The foregoing, 

 experiments give rile to two important obfervations. j 



" The firft experiment fliews us, that lands are brought to much 

 better tihh by the new hufbandry, and that they will confequentry 

 produce much larger crops, than in the old way. Experience proves- 

 that they have done fa. 



" The fecond experiment offers us the fame proofs, but upon a 

 much larger extent of ground. We have the produce of three fuc- 

 ceeding years, and the gradation of their crops. What ought to be 

 particularly attended to here, is, that as the internal pores of the 

 earth became more open, the crops became more plentiful ; which 

 juftifies what we faid before, that the crops of the fecond, third, and 

 following years, would be greater than that of the firft. 



" It was of great confequence to eftablifh this faft, in order to found 

 our calculations of the products on certain and approved experiments. 

 The following article will afford ftill farther proofs of this truth. 



ARTICLE II. 



Experiments ?}iade on lands laid out in beds, and which had borne a 

 fecond crop. RejleElions on thefe experiments. 



EXPERIMENT. No. IV. 



N. B. This f eld is marked with the fame number in the foiirnal 



?/' 1753- (P- i^Z-) 



For the crop of 1753, // was foxved with iBi pounds of wheats 

 which produced 3370 pounds. 



For the crop of 1754, it was fawed with 268 pounds 14 ounces,, 

 which produced 4972 pounds 8 ounces. 



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Muft remind the reader, that this field was fowed in 1753, half 

 in beds, and half in equally diilant rows with the drill-plough. 

 I fhall fpeak firft of the part that was laid out in beds, which con- 

 tinued to be cultivated in the fame manner for the crop of 1754. 

 " The plowings made during the year 1753, had the fame eifedls 



on 



