214 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, ParUI. 



EXPERIMENT. No. XV. 



" Tp IJE fiime perfon who made the experiments, No. VII, 1111752 

 (p. 153-) andNo. X. (p. 173-) and XI. in 1753* (p. 174-) 

 continued them in comparifon with the old hufbandry. They an- 

 fwered as before, and the fame advantages were again confirmed. 

 A detail of the particulars would be ncedlefs. I fliall only add, that 

 barley,with which the experiment was likewife tried, anfwered much 

 beyond any thing that was expefted, and yielded a prodigious crop. 



" The farmer, convinced by fuch fuccefs, of the fuperiority of the 

 new hufbandry over the old, immediately begged his landlord to 

 make no more experiments by way of comparifon, but to let him 

 fow all his lands with the drill-plough. 



EXPERIMENT. No. XVI. 



*' ''Tp HIS experiment was made in the fame farm where the 

 •*- Xlllth and XlVth (p. 175.) were made in 1753. All the 

 lands were very well prepared, and fowed with the drill -plough. 



" One of thefe fields, w4iich contained about four acres, and ufed to 

 require 850 pounds of feed, was now fowed with 3 1 5 pounds. The 

 plants were extremely fine, both before and after winter, and, when 

 reaped, yielded 4940 pounds of wheat. If it had been fowed in the 

 common way, it could not have been expefted to yield above 2900 

 or 3000 pounds: confequently it now produced 1940 pounds more; 

 to which if we add 565 faved in the feed, we fhall have 2505 pounds 

 of wheat more by the new, than would have been obtained by the 

 old hufbandry. 



" Another field of an inferior quality, the extent of which is near 

 nine acres, ufed in the old way to be fowed with 1764 pounds of 

 wheat, and was now fowed with only 819 pounds, which produced 

 about 5720 pounds. Though the difference in the goodnefs of the 

 lands is conliderable, yet the drill-plough flill maintains its fupe- 

 riority : for, if this field had been fowed in the common way, it 

 would have been thought to have produced an exceeding good crop, 

 if it had yielded between 5200 and 5300 pounds, though that 

 would have been 420 pounds lefs than this, which added to the 

 935 pounds faved in the feed, make this crop 1355 pounds greater 

 than it would have been in the old way. 



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