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with wheat: but, that I might not lofe a year, I did it in the fpring 

 with barleyi not doubting but that corn, which is ufually fowed in 

 March, might furnifli me with fome future hints for the culture 

 of that which remains longer in the ground. 



" Accordingly, on the ninth of April 1754, I ordered another bed 

 to be fowed v/ith barley in my prefence, and in the manner I have 

 juft related. I counted all the grains of each duller myfelf. They 

 were fowed in three rows. I varied the experiment in the row next 

 the fouth, by fowing no cluiters there of lefs than 3, 4, 5, or 6 

 grains : which I continued the whole length of the row. At har- 

 veft, all the clufters in v/hich feveral grains had been fowed, were 

 fo thick that they touched one another. 



'< What is of moft confequence to our culture, is, to know the 

 produce of each cluftcr. The annexed table fliews it particularly. 

 I Ihall only add, that the clufters, as they are here ranged under their 

 refpeftive numbers, occupied forty feet in length, and that the beds 

 were five feet wide. 



EXPLANATION 



Qf the table of the bed fowed in chafers mnth barley, and its produSl. 



FIGURE I. 



** The fouth row has 24 numbers. 



FIGURE 11. 

 " The middle row has 16 numbers. 



FIGURE III. 

 ** The north row has 16 numbers. 



*' Thefe numbers are fubdivided into fmall fquares : in the upper 

 ones of each are the number of grains fowed in each clufter. 



" The lower ones contain the number of ftalks bearing ears, which 

 each clufter produced. 



" Each number contains an equal number of fmall fquares, and 

 under each number of each of thefe fquares, is fet down the num- 

 ber of grains that were fowed: thofe of 4 clufters have 18 grains; 

 thofe of fix, 2 1 . 



" The cyphers in fome of the lower fquares of fig. II. and III, 

 are the places where no plant grew. 



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