Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 237 



" In all thefe, and other fuch like cafes, lefs feed fhould be fowed; 

 and, in the contrary cafes, more. Prudence, and a careful ftudy of 

 the nature of the foil, ought to be our guides. Two or three years 

 experience will be fufficient to fhew us the pradlice that will' be beft 

 to follow. 



" It will be right to repeat our laft mentioned experiment, and 

 even to vary it. In all probability it will afford us flill greater 

 lights. It will be right, for example, to fow the clufters with 

 a greater number of grains, beginning with fix, the produce of 

 which is known, and going on to feven, eight, and even more, al- 

 ways in chillers, till one comes to a number at which the crop 

 ceafes to yield an equal profit. By this means the two extremes may 

 be known, either of too much, or too little feed j and the juft pro- 

 portion will then be eafily determined. 



" Some farther alterations may likewife be made in this ex- 

 riment. For example, I placed the grains in the earth fo that 

 they touched one another. I will try to put them at fome little 

 diftance from each other, and to range them in a kind of cir- 

 cle, of about three inches diameter. It is reafonable to think, 

 that the plants may make a greater progrefs then, as they will 

 not all have one common center : fome of them will be nearer 

 to the plowed alley ; their roots will reach it more eafily than 

 before, and will multiply there v/hichi may render the plants 

 more vigorous. 



ARTICLE X. 



General dljpojition for the farther progrefs of the new Hiijhandry, and 

 particularly for the crop of 1755. 



** 1 T is with uncommon fatisfadlion that we fee trials of 

 ^ the new hufbandry multiply daily. A great number of in- 

 telligent perfons have fown part of their lands in equally diftant 

 rows, with the drill -plough, for the next harveft. We have al- 

 ready feveral farms, fome of which are confiderable ones, in the 

 neighbourhood of Geneva, which are no longer fown any other 

 way. 



" 'Tis much to fee this new method thus readily entered in- 

 to. Thof who follow it will foon begin to take a pleafure in 

 calculating, and will be curious to compare the new crops with 

 the old. Thefe calculations will infenfibly lead to others, on the 

 2, produce 



