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more than it did the other, nor had it been fo long laid out in beds; 

 befides which, the rains hindered me from fowing it at the fame time 

 as the other half. It could not be fowed till the 21ft:, 2 2d, 2^d, and 

 24th of Odiober, which is fomewhat late. It was reaped on the 19th 

 of July, and yielded 2080 pounds of wheat. 



•>.. 



Year 1756. 



" '"T* HIS field was fowed on the 9th, loth, and 1 2th of Septem- 

 -*■ ber, with 816 pounds of wheat and reaped on the 28 th and 

 29th of July. The produce was 3640 pounds. 



OBSERFATIONS. 



tt A^NE might juflly be furprized at the fcantinefs of this crop, 

 ^^ if, befides, what I faid before, of the general caufes which 

 were fo prejudicial to this year's crop, I did not add thofe which 

 may have more particularly affeded this field. My intention was 

 to fow it thicker than it chanced to be, by the fower's not following 

 my diredlions. The hurt might perhaps not have been confiderable, 

 if the year had proved kindly : but it was of great confequence this 

 year, and particularly in this field, in which all the corn was ex- 

 tremely rickety. 



No. V. 



Reaped lb. 



• 2205 



, 2283 



2600 



. 2700 



Year 1755. 

 « ^-p^HIS field fi:ill continued to be difficult to bring to good tilth j 

 •*- and therefore required the more feed. It was fowed on the 

 29th of Auguft, reaped the 29th of July, and produced 2600 pounds 

 of grain. ,_ 



Year 1756. 



" T Thought it neceiTary to continue to incr^afe the ieed of this 



■*• field. It was fowed the 20th and 2 2d of September, with 544 



pounds of wheat. The young plants looked very fine before winter, 



and 



