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Year 1756. 

 *< T Continued to fow the fame field with Smyrna wheat, of which 



-'• I procured fome quite pure and unmixed. I fowed 51 pounds 

 of this wheat, on the firft of Odlober. The plants were fine, and fuf- 

 ficiently forward before winter, and throve prodigioufly from fpring 

 till harvell:. But I ought not to omit obferving, that Smyrna 

 wheat is as apt to be rickety as common wheat, and that numbers of 

 thefe plants were affedled with that diftemper. 



" This crop was reaped on the twenty-ninth of July, being ftill 

 green, and the grain only hardened. It yielded 1885 pounds of ex- 

 ceeding fine, clean, good fized wheat. 



OBSERVATIONS. 

 *' T T would anfwer no end to make experiments, if one were. 



-*■ not to attend to the inftrutftions they may afford : but as thofe 

 inftrudlions will fometimes efcape the notice even of the moft care- 

 ful obferver, it is proper always to repeat the experiments, and to 

 continue them conftantly for fome time. It is by fo doing, that 

 the advantages of the new hufbandry will appear in their true light, 

 and be eftablifhed beyond difpute. 



*' The field I am now fpeaking of, and from which I reaped five 

 crops, in five years immediately following one another, prefents us 

 real and very confiderable advantages, which I fhall fet forth in what 

 appears to me the jufiefl and moft ftriking inanner. 



" To this end, I fhall ftate exadly the produdls of the field in 

 queftion, cultivated in the old and in the new way. I fhall begin 

 with its produce during fixteen years that it was cultivated accord- 

 ing to the rules of the old hufbandry ; namely, from the crop of 

 1730, to that of 1744 inclufively. In this fpace of time it pro- 

 duced eight crops ; the cuftom of the country being to fow but 

 once in two years, and to refl the ground each alternate year. My 

 account may be depended upon, as perfeiftly exadl. I have ex- 

 tradted it out of a journal kept by a fleward of mine, who died in 

 1745, and who was fcrupuloufly exadl even in the fmallefl: concerns. 



" After giving the produce of this field, the foil of which is 

 very good and ftrong, during fixteen years that it was cultivated in 

 the old way ; I fhall fhew what the fame field produced in five 

 years cultivation according to the new method, in order to compare 

 the different produdls of only five years to fixteen ; and afterwards 

 draw a comparifon between both the cultures for fixteen years, 



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