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ceived, and for the fame reafons, the neceflity of fowing a greater 

 quantity of feed, than we did in our firil experiments. This aug- 

 mentation produced better crops. We may therefore now lay down, 

 as a rule founded on experience, that the quantity of the feed muft 

 be what we faid in our laft memoirs, regard being had to the par- 

 ticular confiderations mentioned therein. 



" The fecond obfervation is, that both of us have fowed beds with 

 two turns of the drill-plough, that is, with lix rows of corn, and 

 the event in both cafes has been, that the fame extent of ground has 

 always produced a greater quantity of grain. It is therefore proba- 

 ble that this method will be found to be the beft. 



" But as it is pofhble that the effeft may not be the fame in diffe- 

 rent countries, a trial may be made by fowing fome beds with three 

 rows, and others with fix, and which ever anfwers beft, may after- 

 wards be pradifed. 



" Thefe two obfervations will be confirmed by fome experiments 

 which we fhall give in the fifth article. 



" Other bufinefs prevented this lover of agriculture from following 

 his experiments in 1756, with the fame attention as before. The 

 exadt, tho' ihort account which we fliall give of them, may ferve 

 for a fequel to what we have been able to colled: in relation to thofe 

 he made in 1755. 



Year 1756. 



N the firfl: place, the field of fix pofcs, or 5400 perches which 

 bore a crop in 1754, and another in 1755, and which had not 

 been dunged at all fince the year 1749, being furrounded by a greater 

 piece of land, which is fowed, fometimes with wheat, and'fometimes 

 with artificial grafles, was plowed in Augufl, immediately after har- 

 vert, and fowed with y7?/«-yo/«. The crop of 1756 was very fine, 

 each pofe yielding from 25 to 30 hundred weight of hay, at the firft 

 mov/ing, and half as much at the i'econd. Therefore the new 

 hnfiatuiry preferred the gromzd in good condition, ivitboiit the help of 

 dtmg ; and its produtlions do not fee m to have cxhaufted the foil. 



•* The field of about ^vtpofes, or 4200 perches, fowed with wheat, 

 and which produced 92 meafures of that grain in 1755, produced 

 but 61 in J 756. The inferiority of this crop muil be afcribed, 

 I. To the error of fowing wheat that had fprouted, which, in the 

 opinion of all judges, occafioned a diminution of at leaft one fourth : 



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