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ARTICLE VI. 



Summary accounts of the produSls of fever al pieces of land f owed in 

 equally dijiant rows with the drill-plough. 



EXPERIMENT, No. XIX. 



** A S nothing but a great number of experiments, repeated under 



-^^ different circumftances and in different places, can convince 

 fome people of the advantages of the new hufbandry; I am the more 

 readily induced to mention all that have come to my knowledge -, 

 though there are among them feveral of which I have not been able 

 to get fo particular a detail as I could have wifhed : all that has 

 been told me in relation to many of them being, that thofe who made 

 them were well fatisfied with the crops they had obtained by means 

 of the drill-plough, and that they intended to continue ufing it. But 

 the following experiments will merit the reader's attention. 



" The lands I am going to fpeak of, lye in a fpace of about 

 30 fquare miles; and there are great differences in their qualities 

 and fituations : they were not all plowed with equal care : fome of 

 them were dunged, and others were not ; and laflly, the drought 

 was greater at fome villages than at others. Notwithflanding all 

 thefe diverfities, it will appear from what we are going to fay, that 

 the ufe of the drill-plough was attended with uncommon fuccefs 

 every where. 



" To fhorten, and at the fame time give the reader a full view of 

 the purport of this article, I have drawn up a table of the extent of 

 the feveral pieces of land, the quantity of feed ufed for fowing them 

 in the old way, the quantity they were fowed with in the new 

 hufbandry, and their produce in this laft culture. Though thefe 

 experiments are not related fo exacflly as my own, I am fure there 

 is no miftake of any confequence in them. 



I fhould have been very glad to have known likewife the exacfl 

 produdls of the crops in the old way. I have done all I could to 

 come at the knowledge of them, but have obtained only very few 

 fatisfaftory accounts. All that I have been able to learn, amounts 

 only to a confirmation of what I found in my accounts of the cul- 

 ture and produce of my own eftate ; for an exadl account thereof 

 has been kept for about forty years paft. Beyond that time, my 



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