Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 245 



" I grant that many refledtions, and reafonings, which feem at 

 firft fight extremely jufl and appofite, are in reality oftentimes only 

 fpecious and deceitful, and that it is always right to recur to expe- 

 rimental proofs. Luckily we have fuch ready to produce. 



" The celebrated Wolfius obferved long ago, that the productions 

 of plants which grow in large pieces of ground, are always fine when 

 the feed has been properly buried, and fowed thin : whence he 

 concluded, that the moil extenfive fields ought to produce as much 

 in proportion as fmall ones, and that it is evident that whenever an 

 experiment has been made with the neceflary precautions, and has 

 fucceeded upon the tenth part of any piece of ground, it ought to 

 fucceed equally upon two, three, or four tenths, and confequently 

 upon the whole of that ground. 



" The experience of five years, of which I fliall give an account 

 in the following article, will, I believe, prove this very fufiiciently. 



EXPERIMENT, No. H. 



N. B. Tbh field is ?narked with the fame number in the former 



experijtiejits. 



For the crop ofij^z, (p. 147.) it was fowed with ii pounds /^ounces 

 ef wheat, which produced 1 04 1 pounds 1 2 ounces. 



For the crop of 1753, (p. 161.) it was fowed with 34 pounds 14 

 ounces, which produced i t^j^ pounds. 



For the crop of ij^^, (p. 194.) if was f wed with 61 pounds 

 14 ounces, which produced iSzo pounds. 



For the crop tf \j^^, it was fowed with 78 poutids, which pro- 

 duced 1950 pounds. 



For the crop of ly^b, it was fowed with 51 pounds, which pro- 

 duced 1885 pounds^ 



Year 1755. 



** T Had now cultivated Smyrna wheat for fome years, fowing the 

 ■■' whole of each year's produce, in order to increafe my quan- 

 tity fo as to be able to fow a pretty large field with it ; wliich I 

 could not complete till 1754, for the crop of 1755. 



" The field in queftion was fowed with 78 pounds of this corn. 

 It rofe very well : but towards the end of winter, I was furprifed 

 to find that a great quantity of plants had been deftroyed by the 

 froflj and I foon perceived, that almoft all the ftrongeft and 



healthieft 



