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Year 1755. 



*' '"T^HIS field, which had been well prepared, was (owed on the 

 ■*• 27th of Auguft, with 3 1 2 pounds of wheat, which grew 

 very fine and thick till November: but from the loth to the i8th 

 of that month, a general rujl feized it. I imputed to this diilemper 

 the fmallnefs of the crop,which amounted only to 1362 pounds. 



Year 1756. 



*' npHE ground was extremely well prepared, and better than 

 ^ the preceding years. It was fowed on the 24th of Septem- 

 ber with 295 pounds of wheat, which produced 2219 pounds. It 

 was reaped the 21ft of July. 



EXPERIMENT, No. X. 



lb. ^ lb. 



For 1754 fp- 204.^ was fowed 294 which yielded 3055 



1755 . . . 397 . . . 2210 



1756 rye . . 348 . . . 2700 



Year 1755. 



THIS field was fowed on the 30th of Augufl:, with 397 pounds 

 of wheat, which produced 2210 pounds. I make the fame 

 remarks on this experiment, as on the preceding No. IX. year 1755. 



Year 1756. 



" /TpHOUGH it is not ufual for me to fow rye, becaufe all my 

 JL lands are fit to bear wheat, I was willing to make a trial with 

 that grain ; and accordingly I fowed this field with it, on the i6th 

 of September. The quantity employed was 348 pounds. The' 

 flraw was very long, and much thicker than that of rye in the com- 

 mon way : the grains too were confiderably larger. It was reaped 

 on the 19th and 20th of July, and yielded 2700 pounds of grain. 



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