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and promifed better tlian thole of the preceding years. The general 

 accidents of the year affedled them. They were reaped the 26tli of 

 July, and yielded 2700 pounds of corn. 



EXPERIMENT, No. VI. 



Year 1755. 



" 'TpIIIS field is one of thofe in which the (liffnefs of the foil re- 

 "*• fifted longeft that degree of pulverifation in which the chief 

 merit of the new hufbandry confifts. The firfl: crops were not con- 

 fiderable. In 1754, I could not fow this ground before the 15th of 

 October, and yet the plants which it produced were very fine. It 

 was reaped on the 2ift of July, and produced 900 pounds of wheat. 



" The moft remarkable thing in this field, was what happened to 

 fome beds which I had fowed with 12 pounds of barley. The young 

 plants were exceeding fine in autumn, but the hard frofts of the 

 winter killed every one of them. 



" As foon as I perceived this lofs, I endeavoured to repair it, by 

 fowing the fame beds again with fpring barley; and as the two wheat 

 beds next to them had likewife fuftered fo much as to have but few 

 plants left, I fowed them alfo with barley. 



" Thefe beds were fowed without being plowed again. The whole 

 charge of this fecond fowing confifted in pafilng the drill once over 

 them, and in 28 pounds weight of barley which was ufed for the 

 feed. This was done the eighth of April, 



" This barley grewvery fine. It was reaped on the firft of Auguft, 

 and yielded 270 pounds of grain. I doubt whether that which was 

 fowed before the winter, could have produced more: fo that I think 

 this crop made me ample amends for the lofs of my firft feed. 



" How great a proof is this of the excellence of the new hufbandry ! 

 and how eafy a means does this hufbandry afford, of guarding againfl: 

 dearth, when our young crops chance to be deftroyed, by the facility 

 with which the fame lands may be fowed again, without lofs of 



time. 



