198 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Partll. 



No. 3, notwithftanding the culture beflowed upon it in the fum- 

 nier of 1753, which mended it greatly. Still it was not yet in the 

 condition I could have wiflied.when I lowed it on the eighteenth and 

 twentieth of Auguft. I fowed it thicker than it had ever been be- 

 fore, purely on account of the badnefs of its tilth. I beftowed up- 

 on it 224 pounds of wheat, which rofe pretty well, but afforded 

 fewer plants than that of the fecond experiment. They branched 

 tolerably, and their ears were very fine. I reaped this crop on the 

 nineteenth and twentieth of July, and it yielded 2283 pounds of 

 wheat, which is 78 pounds more than the firft crop in 1753. 



EXPERIMENT. No. VI. 

 N. B. This field is marked nvith the fame, number in the journal 



For the crop oj 1753, it was fowed ivith 45 founds of ivheat^ 

 ivhich produced "jt.^ pounds. 



For the crop of 1754, it ivas fowed with ^2 pounds of wheat, 

 which produced j()^ pounds. 



" \hJ ^^^ ^ ^^^^ °^ ^^^ foregoing experiment, may likewife fervc 

 * ' for this. All the circumflances were alike, except that this 

 field was fowed a few days later, 'viz. the twenty-feventh of Augufl. 

 It was reaped on the nineteenth of July, and yielded 798 pounds, 

 which is 74 pounds more than in 1753- 



EXPERIMENT, No. VII. 



N.B. This field is marked with the fame jiumber in the journal 



tf^isz- (p- ^70-) „. " 



For the crop of 1753, it was fowed, as well in that part of it 

 which was made i?ito beds, as in that ivhich was fowed in equally di- 

 fiant rows, with 412 pounds of wheat, which produced 2646 pounds. 



For the crop of 1754, the whole field was made iiito beds, and 

 fowed with 360 pounds, which produced 2467 pounds. 



" T T muft be remembered that one half of this field had borne a 

 -■' firft crop, and the other a fecond. From what I have already 

 faid, it will be prefumed that the mould of the new beds was not 

 in fo good condition as that of the other beds : confequently the 

 former could not be expected to yield fo good a crop. 



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