2IO EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



plants were very poor, and branched into only two, three, or four 

 ftalks a-piece. The fecond year, they did much better; and the 

 third year, they v/ere as large and fine as any my garden 

 could have produced. This fpot ftill continues to produce equally 

 well. 



" We have here a remarkable inftance, of what may be done by 

 fufficiently pulverifing the earth: that which I am fpeaking of, is 

 now like mould; and, which is very remarkable, it has loft its for- 

 mer white colour, and is become black. Let us now do the fame with 

 any of our bad lands, and perfevere in plowing and ftirring them a 

 futficient time : the fuccefs will not be doubtful. 



" But to return to the fubjeft of this article. Some of the fields 

 we were fpeaking of, are furrounded by, or border upon woods. 

 This fituation is far from being good, and it feldom happens but 

 that fuch a neighbourhood does great injury to the crops. 



" I could like wife have wiflied, that a larger quantity of feed had 

 been employed to fow tiiefe fields. The lofs occafioned by the froft 

 might have been leffened thereby; as it may be prefumed that a 

 greater number of plants would have efcaped, if they had beea 

 thicker in the places where all of them were not entirely de- 

 ftroyed. 



" We obferved before, that the young plants were in a fine condi- 

 dition before winter, and that they promifed well; but the feverity 

 of the frofts, doubtlefs too great for the condition and fituation of 

 thefe lands, did an irreparable injury to almoft all thefe fields. 



" I examined the greateft part of them in the beginning of fpring. 

 Of all thofe which I faw, I found but one fpot of three or four 

 acres, of which the earth was in the condition it ought to be, that 

 is to fay, well ftirred and broken, fupple, light, and penetrable.. 

 Too few plants were left in this good fpot : large fpaces were 

 quite empty in moft of the rows : but thofe that did refift, grew 

 very fine in the fummer, branched extremiely well, and bore fine 

 ears. 



*' By this one might guefs what thefe lands were capable of. My 

 opinion is, that, in other years free from fuch accidents, the rows 

 - will remain well ftocked with plants, which, finding fufficient 

 nourifliment, will be nearly of equal ftrength and beauty ia 

 every part, and, all together, will produce a confiderable quantity of 

 corn. 



" The 



