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252 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part H. 



different road from that which is commonly purfaed : it muft be by- 

 reckoning and calculating, as I have done with regard to the field in 

 queflion. 



** Some fields will not yield fo much as this has done : but yet 

 their produce will be fuch as muft determine all unprejudiced per- 

 fons in favour of the new huibandry, as I fhall demonftrate by the 

 calculations in the third and fourth articles. 



EXPERIMEN T,''ii£m. 



N. B. T'Jse field on which this experiment was made, contaitis about 

 an acre of ground. I have joined it to that of the experiment No. j» 

 under which its produce is included. 



EXPERIMENT, No. IV. 



oz. lb. oz 



In 1753 • . . 181 , • reaped 3370 



"14 , . 4972 8 



. 5850 



2080 



• 3640 



Year 1755^. 



*< />NE half of this field was laid out in beds in 1753, (p. 167.) 

 ^^ and the other half, not till 1754, (p. 196.) I fhall begin 

 with the oldeft, from which I had reafon to exped: the beft crop, the 

 ground being beft prepared. It was fbwed on the 27th and 28th of 

 Auguft, with 488 pounds of wheat. This was a confiderable increafe 

 of feed. I judged it neceffary, and fo it proved; for it preferved 

 this field from being greatly hurt by the frofts in winter, which de- 

 ftroyed a great number pi plants. If they had not been fo thick 

 lown, I make no doubt but that the crop would have been confidera- 

 bly diminifhed. This half was reaped on the 1 8 th of July, and yielded 

 5850 pounds of very fine grain. Here is a crop confiderably greater 

 than the former. It exceeds the firft by 2480 pounds.. 



" The other half of this field now bore its fecond crop. The fame 

 quantity of feed (418 lb.) was fowed, but did not produce fo much 

 as in the other half. As this part lies in a bottom, the froft hurt it 



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