Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 229 



ARTICLE VIII. 



Experiments made on beds foiaed ivithfix rows of wheat : comparifon 

 of their produce, with that of beds /owed with only three rows; and 

 fome inquiry concerning the number of rows which it is beji tofow. 



** TN the journal of 1753, article VII. (p.i8r.) I gave an account 

 -^ of my fuccefs in fowing beds with two turns of the drill-plough, 

 in order to have fix rows of wheat. It anfwered fo well, that I 

 thought I fhould run no hazard in fowing a larger extent of ground 

 in the fame manner. 



" This experiment fucceeded equally well this year. I fhall not 

 enter into a detail of it, becaufe that would be only a repetition of 

 what I faid on this fubjed in 1753. As to the refult ; the reader 

 will recoiled, that the fame ground made into beds wide enough to 

 be fowed with two turns of the drill-plough, which make fix rows, 

 produced more corn, than if it had been fown in beds with only one 

 draught of the drill-plough, which would have made but three 

 rows. 



" With regard to the quantity of the produds of the crops of 

 1753 and 1754, compared together; I have found, that the fix rowed 

 beds produced this year very nearly the fame that they did in 1753 ; 

 excepting the field of the experiment. No. VIII, (p. 171.) which 

 yielded about half as much again as the year before. 



" Notwithflanding the profit which I found in thefe experi- 

 ments repeated two years running, I do not think it advifeable to 

 enlarge the number of rows to fo many as fix. Five will, in my 

 opinion, be very fiifficient : and they may be made with one cut of 

 the drill-plough, by giving it five fhares, which is very eafily done. 

 This number of rows will be a proper medium between fix and 

 •three. 



" Sowing in five rows will not, however, do in all forts of lands. 

 I believe it fhould be pradlifed on none but good ones, and that 

 middling lands fliould continue to be fowed with three rows at 

 moft. 



" I Ihall add farther with refpedl to good lands, that they ought 

 not to be fowed with five rows, till after they have been thoroughly 

 well ilirred; and, above all, not till after the gre.it furrow in the 

 middle of the beds ha^ been cut exirsmely deep, in order that the 

 •roots of the middle row, which is the moll diftant from the plowed 

 2 alleys. 



