Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 203 



EXPERIMENT. No. VIII. 



" 'T^HE foil of this field is very good and ftrong. Its extent is 

 ^ 1 300 toifes. I made the beds about fix feet wide ; and each 

 bed was fowed with two turns of the drill-plough, which were to 

 make fix rows : but the difficulty of guiding the plough fo as to keep 

 the three lail rows exactly parallel to the three firft, was fo great, 

 that the two middle rows were frequently jumbled together, fo that 

 there were in fad but five rows in fome places. The fpace that 

 remained between the outer row of one bed and the outer row of the 

 next bed, left an alley wide enough to be plowed. I muft obferve 

 that our farmers hereabouts liked this way of fowing much better 

 than the firft, in which I likewife made the beds fix feet wide -, and ; 

 fowed them with only three rows. 



" I fowed each row a little thinner than in the former experi- 

 ments : but as there were more of them in each bed, they would of 

 courfe require a greater quantity of feed. This field was fowed on 

 the twenty-feventh of Auguft, with 76 pounds 8 ounces of wheat. 



" All my plants were equally fine till winter, and fliot up with , 

 great vigor in the fpring. They grew exceeding high, branched 

 abundantly, and produced very large ears, among which there was , 

 but little difference. This crop was reaped on the feventh of July, 

 and yielded 1462 pounds of wheat. 



" This produce made me ample amends for the labour I had be- ] 

 flowed upon the ground. It is after the rate of about 1 500 pounds, 

 or 30 bulliels to an acre. i 



EXPERIMENT. No. IX. 



** 'TpHIS field is of a very indiff*erent quality, and had hitherto , 



-■• yielded but fmall crops. Its extent is 5813 toifes 12 feet. 

 It was fowed on the feventh and eighth of Augufl, in the fame manner 

 as the former, with 249 pounds 1 2 ounces of wheat. 



" The young plants (hot up as thick, and looked as ftrong and of 

 as good a colour, as thofe of the foregoing experiment : but the ruit 

 took them all in Odlober and November, and their blades, which 

 were of the fineft green before, turned yellow, and perfedlly covered ' 

 the ground with the powder of this ruft. My plants fuffered greatly 

 by this accident. They branched imperfe£Lly, and confequently grew ■ 



D d 2 very' 



