27^ EXPERIMENTS GN WHEAT, Partll; 



14560 pounds, which is a great deal, confidering the quality of the 

 land. ' 



•' I lliall conclude this ai-ticle with a fliort detail of two little ex- 

 periments made by the perfon I laft fpoke of on two fields of diffe- 

 rent foils. The fidi, which contained about two acres, ^ was of 

 a light foil, and fonlewhat ftony. The quantity of feed generally 

 ufed for that ground, was about 380 pound weight. It was fowed 

 very thick, With the drill-plough, and took up 252 pounds of feed. 

 I attended carefully to the progrefs of this corn. It ripen'd well, 

 the ftraw was very long, and crowned with fine ears which yielded 

 2835 pounds of grain. 



" The fecond experiment was made on a fliff foil. Half the field, 

 was fown in the comm.on way i and the other half in equally di- 

 flant rows with the drill-plough, and only two-thirds of the ufual' 

 quantity of feed was ufed. This laft half yielded double what the 

 other did, though it was fown with a third lefs feed. 



ARTICLE III. 



" •T'^HE defignofthls article is, to flievi^ that lands which are 

 -^ laid out in beds according to the new hufbandry, produce 



more corn than thofe which are only fown in equally diftant rows, . 



with the drill-plough. The proof of this propofition will refult 



from proper calculations, and a comparifon of the produdls of thefe,- 



two different methods. 



" It is of no fmair importance to the public, to know exaftly 



which is the beft and moft profitable way to cultivate land. This 

 article deferves flill more attention than the laft, as it tends to 

 point out the means that are in reality moft advantageous, tho' 

 oppofed by an obftinate attachment to the old hufoandry, and the 

 extreme reludance with wliich farmers can ever be induced to try 

 a new pradlice, which they are almoft always ready to condemn 

 without taking the pains to know what, it is, and indeed, gene- 

 rally, becaufe they are not able to judge of it. It cannut therefore 

 be expefted, that the theory alone ihould fatisfy them that this 

 hufbandry is confiftent v/ith the beft principles of agriculture. If 

 any thing can convince them, it will be a feries of fa^ls, and ex- 

 periment's repeated duri-ng a courfe of years, always fuccefsfully 

 in fo many different places. 

 ■ <* It is hi^-hly neceflTary to dwell upon the proofs that the old.huf- 

 * bandry 



