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foregoing years, by about a fifth part, as near as I could judge. 

 The corn was very fine and clean ; and had it not been for this acci- 

 dent, I am confident I (liould ha\e had a very plentiful crop. 



" I did not fee any one field exempt from this diilemper. Ex- 

 ceeding fine corn, cultivated in the old way, was totally infeded 

 with it ; and the Iheaves in general yielded but about half the quantity 

 of corn that they ufually do in good years. The grains were very 

 fmall, and mixed with a great many feeds of weeds. 



" Thefe general notions are necelfary, in order to form a riglit 

 judgment of the refult of my experiments, which I fliall relate in 

 the following order. 



" The firfl article will comprehend tlie experiment which I 

 made upon all my fields laid out in beds, the lafi; of which now 

 bore their third crop. I have difiinguiflied them by the fame num- 

 bers as in the former years, and Ihall add to each the particular ob- 

 fervations that relate immediately to it. 



" The fecond article will fliew the produce of the lands fowed in 

 equally diftant rows, with the drill-plough. I fliall make fome 

 refledlions on the ufefulnefs of this practice, which is certainly always 

 preferable to the common way of fowing. 



" I fhall prove in the third article, that it is flill more profitable 

 to lay the ground out in beds. This proof will refult from the cal- 

 culations and comparifons of the produce in each different way. 



A R T I C L E I. 



EiXperiments made on fields laid out in bedsy the laft made of 'which 

 have borne three fticceeding crops. Thefe fields are difling7.{ifl:ed by 

 the fame numbers as in the foregoing years. Obfervations relating 

 particularly to each experiment. 



EXPERIMENT, No. I. 



Year 1755. 



N. B. This was made on the fame piece of ground on which I wade my 

 firfi experiments in 1751 : and this year s crop iva's the fifth, with' 

 out afiy interruption, fv. p. 139. 145. 160. and i88.y 



<« T Gave a very full account, in the ninth article of the year 1754, 



■■• (p. 230.) of the experiment I made in order to be the better 



able to judge which is the mofl profitable way of fowing the beds; 



I i aod 



