242 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part. IL 



and to determine what quantity of feed it is moft proper to fow, in 

 order to have the greateft crop ; and this I called, Jbivwg in chjlerst 

 at the dijiance of fix inches from the center- of the one to that of the other. 

 I fliall only remind the reader here, that the fpot of ground which 

 was fowed in clufters, with barley, in the fpring, was part of a 

 bed, forty feet long, and that the produce of the grain was feven- 

 teen pounds weight, belides a conliderable quantity that was flied 

 in reaping. 



" This experiment, which deferved to be repeated, was tried again 

 the fame year, and upon the fame ground which I had fowed with 

 barley. This laft grain being reaped, I fowed the fame bed with 

 wheat, on the twenty-third of September following : but it is to be 

 cbferved, that I did not plow this fpot after the barley was off, but 

 only plucked up the ftubble, and made three channels, into which 

 the feed was dropt by hand in clufters fix inches diftant from one 

 another. 



" As in the experiment of 1754, the clufters fowed with fix 

 grains,were thofe which produced the moft ftalks and grains, I fowed 

 all the clufters with at leaft fix grains, fome with feven, and others 

 with eight ; keeping all the grains at fome little diftance from each 

 other. The bed forty feet long contained eighty-three clufters in; 

 each row, which were fowed with two ounces fix pennyweights of 

 wheat. 



" The plants came up very well : I fpared no pains to- cultivate 

 them J they throve wonderfully till harveft : their blades, ftalks„ 

 ears, and grains, were very fine j and I preferved them from the 

 birds with a net : but as I would not reap them till they were tho- 

 roughly ripe, a great deal was fhed in cutting them down, and they 

 yielded me but twenty-eight pounds. 



OBSERVATIONS. 



" 'X^HIS experiment is a farther confirmation of the refult of the- 

 ■^ firft which was made in 1754. tjiz.. that fix grains are not 

 too great a number to be fowed in a clufter, fix inches diftant from 

 the next clufter. I had not leifure to count the ftalks which each 

 clufter produced ; but the twenty-eight pounds of corn which 

 they yielded, feems a fufiicient proof. 



" The circumftance of not plowing the bed before it was fowed^ 

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