222 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Partll. 



have thofe of each field in particular ; in the next, we have thofe 

 of fome whole farms ; and laftly, we have thofe contained in the 

 table of the fixth article, to which lafl I fliall now limit my re- 

 fletSions. 



" We may look upon, the produce of 44 acres fpread up and down 

 an extent of thirty fquare miles, amounting all together to 

 30940 pounds of wheat, as the medium produce of the generality 

 of our lands. I fliall therefore not dwell upon the produce of each of 

 thefe fields taken feparately, but only confider now, that 44 acres 

 yielded 30940 pounds of wheat. 



" If thefe 44 acres had been cultivated in the old way, they cer- 

 tainly would not have produced fo much ; fince we have feen that 

 the medium produce is but three times the feed : and I am fatisfied 

 it would have been lefs this year 1754. However, I will fuppofe 

 the crop to have yielded three times the quantity of the feed. Thefe 

 44 acres, fowed with 8926 pounds of wheat, would then have pro- 

 duced 26778 pounds; deducting from which 8926 pounds for the 

 feed, the neat produce will be reduced to 17852 poimds. 



" The 44 acres fowed with the drill-plough yielded 30940 

 pounds; from which we are to dedudt 3809 pounds, which was 

 all the feed that was fowed. T'he neat produce ivill then be reduced to 

 271 3 1 pounds, which is 9279 pounds more than would have been pro- 

 duced in the old way. 



" The owners or farmers of thefe 44 acres had therefore 9279 

 pounds of corn mojre. They reaped the firfl benefit of this gain, 

 and the public the next, as fo much more corn was carried to 

 market, than would otherwife have been. Such an advantage is 

 very confiderable, and deferves the utmoft attention of the public, 

 whom we invite to confider it in a more extenfive light. The ob- 

 jedt will thereby become the more interefting. 



" Let us but confider how much greater a quantity of corn this 

 fpace of nine or ten fquare leagues would have produced, if all the 

 arable lands in it had been fowed with the drill-plough : how much 

 more grain would it not have afforded for the nouril'hment of the 

 people ! what increafe of income to every individual concerned there- 

 in ! and how fure a way to guard againll future dearths ! 



" But this is not yet all. Much greater advantages will ftill re- 



;fult from tjie cultivating of lands entirely in the new way : I mean, 



by laying them out in beds, and obferving all the praftices of the new 



hulbandry. This I proved plainly in my journal of I753> by the 



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