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are more dccifive than fmall ones, of which we have already given 

 a fufficient number in the foregoing journals. 



" I fliall call this No. XVII, becaufe it was made by the fame 

 perfon and in the fame places, as that which is marked No. XVII 

 in the year 1754, (p. 215.) I need not repeat what I then faid of the 

 fituation and quality of the lands^. 



" This experiment contains the produds of three different farms. 

 About 70 acres were cultivated in the firft, 34 in the fecond, and 

 26 in the third : in all, 130 arpents, which were fowu with wheat 

 in September and Odlober. 



Year 1755. 



Ouantity of feed generally \ „ ^^ Y'c^ 



r'j -a ij ■{ Second farm 



uled m the old way. I Th" d f 



' Quantity of feed ufed with \ o j r 

 ^ir- 11111 i Isecond farm 



the dnll-plough. l^^.^^ f^^^ 



" Saved in the feed. 



16002 lb, 

 75601b. 

 59221b. 



Total 294841b: 



78121b. 

 3276 lb. 

 31501b. 



Total 142381b. 



Crops of 1755. 



{Firft farm 

 Second farm 

 Third farm 



152461b, 



8o2iolb. 

 276901b, 

 270401b. 



" Total of the crops, .> ,. 1349401b. 



" To which if we add the faving in the feed, viz. 15246 lb. 



The whole produce will bo 



1501861b. 



" I fliall now examine what thefe three farms would have pro- 

 duced, if they had been cultivated in the old way, fuppofing their 

 crops to have been equal to thofe of 1754 ; which is much in fa- 

 vour of the old hufbandry . 



