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"RESULTS. 



" Tie SOUTH RO Jr. 



fowed with 6, 5, 4, and 3 grains, 

 produced 661, 624, 447, and 493 llalks. 

 In all 2225 ftalks. 



" T/je MIDDLE R IF. 



fowed with i, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 grains, 

 produced 48, 72, 147, 204, 2ig, and 487 llalks. 

 In all 1 177 flalks. 



" r/je NORTH RO W. 



fowed with 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, and i grains, 

 produced 502, 372, 345, 276, 200, and 92 llalks. 

 In all 1787 ftalks. 



** Confequently the whole number of ftalks in the three rows 

 was 5189. They yielded 17 pounds of grain, befides a great quan- 

 tity that was fhed in reaping. 



" On the footing of this crop, an arpent of 37 fquare toifes * 

 would contain at leaft 44 beds five feet wide, which was the breadth 

 of the beds on which this experiment was made. The beds would 

 be 222 feet long: the produce of one of them would be 93 pounds 

 8 ounces, and that of the 44, 4138 pounds 8 ounces : a very con- 

 fiderable crop, and which might be carried ftill farther by other 

 experiments of this kind, as we fliall foon fee. 



REMARKS. 



*• MpHE following obfervations deferve the reader's utmoil: atten- 

 ■*■ tion. Firft, By this experiment, I have very nearly effefted 

 what I aimed at, viz. to have two or more plants grow fo clofe to- 

 gether as to feem but one; and that at fix inches diftance from each 

 other. If the three rows had been joined together lengthways, they 

 would have been 120 feet long, and ought to have contained but 

 240 plants : but the diftances, which were marked by guefs, not 



H h beins 



* The arpent, by which M. de Chateau-vieux reckons here, is, as we have elfc- 

 where obferved, equal to one acre, and very near ^ of a rood Engliflj meafure. 



