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confirms the advantages of preparing land according to the new 

 hulbandry. 



" I faid that the ftubble was plucked up, in order to prepare the 

 bed ibr being lowed. This fhewed me how much ftubble nelps to 

 enrich land. 



** When this bed was fowed, and the corn fprung up, I ordered 

 the furrows which were made before winter, next the outward 

 rows, to be opened for about half the length of that bed, and the 

 ftubble to be put into them, and covered over with earth : confe- 

 quently it was laid in the gi'ound which was cultivated, and in that 

 part of it where the plants were to extend their roots. As the quan- 

 tity of roots coUedled there was pretty great, I concluded that the 

 effedt ought to be much more fenfible than it can be in other fields 

 where the plowman buries them as chance dire<fts. In effed:, that 

 part of the bed became much finer than the reft ; the plants pro- 

 duced a greater number of ftalks ; and there is no room to doubt 

 that the ftubble was an excellent manure. 



Year 1756. 



" T Purpofed to continue fowing this bed in clufters, and to in- 

 -■■ creafe the quantity of the feed, in order to fee what the eftedl 

 would be : but, in hopes of better fuccefs, I gave up the thoughts 

 I once had of reaping a third crop from this bed without plowing 

 it. 



" After one plowing, I fowed it, on the fixteenth of September 

 175 J, in three rows of 93 clufters in each row, and 10 or 15 grains 

 in each clufter : and in order to place them with fome kind of re- 

 gularity, I made ufe of an iron hoop, about three inches in diameter, 

 which was laid upon the ground at each place that was to be fow- 

 ed, and the grains were dropt at nearly equal diftances, fome 

 round the infide, and fome in the middle of this circle. Each 

 clufter was fowed in this manner. The fpace from one center 

 to another, was about five inches. The feed was covered over 

 lightly, with a rake, and the quantity employed in this operation, 

 was five ounces twelve pennyweights. 



" This wheat was always very fine, from its firft riling, till har- 

 veft. It was reaped on the thirty-fixft of July, and yielded twenty- 

 three pounds of grain. 



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