268 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part II. 



2. To the damage done by cattle, (this field lying quite open to them,) 

 which was greater this year than it had ever been before; part of the 

 girfeen corn being eaten down twice : this lofs is valued at a tenth 

 part of the crop independent of the tythe. 3. That the ears were 

 not fo full of grain this year, in this country, as they had ufed to be i 

 there was as much ftraw,within feven truffes and a half, as in 1755'; 

 but the corn ran lefs into grain, tho' it ftill had more than the com- 

 mon Avheat. 



" Upon the whole, all lofles and accidents deduced, the crop was 

 Avorth double what the land would have let for. 



" This field is now under wheat, which looks extremely fine, ex- 

 cept one poje, which muft be fowed again with fomething elfe on ac- 

 count of the dama?e the cattle have done it. The owner of this 

 field intends to continue fowing it without dung, as long as any 

 heart remains in it; in order, fays he, to conjirm f?2yfelf in what I ncm 

 think ; or to Jin d out my error, if I am mijlaken. 



" Another field of betwixt nine and ten pofes, or about 9500 

 perches, produced 160 meafures of wheat; but fome loads of dung 

 had been laid upon it. However, even the places which had not 

 been dunged, produced much ftronger flraw than they did the 

 year before, in which they were fown by hand. 'Tis true that 

 the dung made the flraw Wronger, but the ears did not yield ei- 

 ther more, or finer grain. This was likewife fowed with fprouted 

 corn : but the feed was better this year, and accordingly there 

 is a profpeft of a greater crop. 



A R T I C L E II. 



'Experiments made on lands fown in equally dijlant rows 'with the drill- 

 plough; with fome rejle^lions on the advantages ofthispraSlice. 



EXPERIMENT, No.XVII. 



" A Large extent of land, near Geneva, continued to be fown with 

 ■^^ the drill plough, in equally diflant rows. I could inflance 

 the prodiidls of a multitude of experiments, to prove that the fields 

 fowed in this manner, have always produced much greater crops 

 than thofe which have been fown in the common way. 



" I fhall mention only a few experiments this year : but they are 

 ilich as have been made on large trads of ground, and confequently 



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