2o8 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



ARTICLE IV. 



Experiments tnade on laiids lard out hi beds, ivhich have borne a Jirjl 

 and fecond crop ; together with fome Interejling obfcrvations. 



EXPERIMENT, No. XI. 



" T N the journal of 1 753, fp. iji.J I gave an account of the ex- 

 -■■ periments which aperfon had made on about twenty-eight acres, 

 laid out in beds of about fix feet wide, and which did not meet with 

 the defu'ed fuccefs. I added, that the fame perfon, perfuaded never- 

 thelefs of the advantages of this culture, had prepared twenty-five 

 acres more in the fame manner, and that all of them were fowed for 

 the crop of 1754. 



" All this ground was plowed with care, and part of it was fowed 

 earlier than the year before. Some little addition was likewife made 

 to the quantity of the feed. The plants in general rofe extremely 

 well, and were ftrong and healthy before winter, in proportion to 

 the time of their being fown, and to the quality and condition of 

 ,the land. 



., ..^^f Such a beginning gave room to hope that thefe fields would yield 

 a pretty good crop : but the winter ruined all ; and fcarce any thing 

 was reaped from fo large an extent of ground. 



OBSERVATIONS on this EXPER I ME NT. 



" 1 T would be unfair in me not to mention this experiment, 

 ■*■ tho' it anfwered fo badly. The reader may be furprized at firfl, 

 to fee fo great a contrail between this and my own experiments, in 

 which, notwithHanding the intemperature of the feafons, and other 

 accidents, he finds tlie crops increafe, as the land becomes better 

 tilled according to the principles of the new hufbandry. This in- 

 creafe was what we foretold would happen : but the field we are aow 

 fpeaking of, produced lefs the fecond year than it did the firft, tho' 

 even that was very little. 



" There muft then necefiTarily have been fome differences between 



thefe fields, to which this great difparity of their crops was owing. 



Thefe differences doubtlefs were, either in the quality of the foils, 



ithc preparation of them, their expofition, the quantity of the feed, 



1 the 



