Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIE UX. 197. 



on this land, that is to fay, they loofened and divided it. It was 

 plowed with eafe after harvefi: ; and the new beds having been 

 for ned and well prepared, I fowed them on the feventeenth and 

 eic^hteenth of Auguft, increafing the quantity of the feed to 268 

 pounds fourteen ounces of wheat. The plants rofe well, and throve 

 greatly before winter; and in the fpring they made ftrong fhoots. 



" The winter's frofts, and perhaps feme infefts too, had deflrcyed 

 feveral plants in the rows. I faw plainly by this, that I had done 

 right in increafing the quantity of the feed. Though the year was 

 dry and hot, the wheat grew to a great height, and ripened well. 

 I reaped it between the tenth and fifteenth of July, and thrclhed 

 it out in the winter. This crop yielded me 4972 pounds 8 ounces : 

 fo that I had this fecond year 1602 pounds 8 ounces more than 

 the firfl. 



" I lliall {horten what I have to fay of the other half of this field, 

 which was fowed in equally diftant ro\vs for the crop of 1753. 

 After harveft, I made it into beds. But how furprifing was the dif- 

 ference between the mould of thefe two parts of the fame field, 

 even in the fecond year! That which had been in beds, was fine 

 and light : but this was fcarcely divided at all : it was full of great 

 hard clods, many of which were obliged to be broken by hand. 

 Though I had not much nope of its yielding any great crop, confi- 

 dering the condition it was in, I fowed it on the twenty-ninth and 

 thirty-firft of Auguft. 



" Thefe beds were but poorly ftocked with plants,which gathered 

 little ftrength before winter, and indeed always remained very weak 

 and ftinted, and when reaped, yielded ftill lefs than the other half 

 of the field had done in 1753. But if I have gained nothing by 

 the crop, at leaft I have brought my beds into fuch tilth, as afiures 

 me of a more plentiful harveft in 1755. 



EXPERIMENT. No. V. 

 N. B. Thisjield is marked with the fame number in the journal 



'if}l^Z- (p- 17°:) 



Tor the crop ofij^2)> ^^ was foived with 139 pounds, which pro- 

 duced 2ZO^ pounds. 



For the crop ofi'y^/\., it was fowed with 22/^ pounds of wheat ^ which 

 produced 2283 pounds. ■ '•" '■ 



«* 'T'^HE foil of this field was of fuch a nature as made it more 



•*■ difficult to loofen, than thofe of the experiments No. 2. and 



2 No. 



