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" A fmall fpot, of about an acre and a quarter, which ufed com- 

 monly to be ibwed with 157 pounds of wheat, was fowed with 63 

 pounds, and produced 430 pounds. This is nearly the fame 

 proportion as the foregoing experiment. 



" Thefe fields, being fome better than others, may ferve to 

 fhew what may be expedled from lands of different qualities. 



" A piece of ground of thirty acres was likewife plowed with care. 

 This, to have fowed it in the old way, would have required about 

 6550 pounds of feed,which would have yielded at moll 20000 weight. 

 I even think I over-rate it in this. 



" Thefe 30 acres were fowed with 2772 pounds of wheat. Here 

 is, in the firft place, a faving of 3778 pounds in the feed, which is 

 a very confiderable object. The whole crop yielded about 19000 

 pounds, which added to the 3778 pounds faved in the feed, make 

 22778 pounds. The profit therefore is 2278 pounds more in the 

 new way than in the old. 



" To fet this experiment in a yet clearer light, I {hall add, that 

 the Iheaves were ilrong, the ftraw fine, the grain very^ clean and 

 plump, and that half thefe fields had fuffered confiderably by the 

 frofts in March. 



*' The produce of a few detached pieces of land, might not have 

 been fufficient to perfuade the generality of mankind, fo much as 

 to adopt even this change, which confifts folely in the manner of 

 fowing the land. They might flill think it imprudent to give up a 

 certain profit for an uncertain one. It is fit therefore that they 

 fhould fee by the management of a whole farm, that this hulbandry 

 may be praftifed to a very great advantage. This we Ihall lliew in 

 the following article. 



EXPERIMENT. No. XVII. 



" 'T^HIS experiment, which is a very confiderable one, was exe- 

 -*• cuted on the fame perfon's lands, who made the experiment 

 No. I2'in 175'^, (p. 174-) All the lands were fowed with the drill- 

 plough. They were plowed four times, and a fmall part of the whole 

 was dunged. I cannot enter into all the details of this operation; but 

 the general refults, ■which we fliall give, will be fufficient. 



" The lands we are fpeaking of compofe three farms, fituated in 

 three difi:erent villages, about a mile and ahalf diftant from each o- 

 ther. Thefe lands are of different qualities; fome ftiff, others pretty 

 light, others of a middling quality, and but little flony. 



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