Chap. II. BY M. DE CHATEAU-VIEUX. 277 



** The 169 acres of the tliree farms fown in equally difl^ant rows 

 iviih the drill-plough, will produce nothing in 1757, that being 

 their year of fallow j confequently their neat produce in two years, 

 v>iil have been only 1 11738 pounds of wheat, whilil the 54 acres 

 'Jnade into beds, will have produced 38634 pounds. But fuppofing 

 the 169 acres to have been cultivated in beds, and their produce 

 to have been in the fame proportion as that of the 54 acres, it 

 v/ould amount to 134769 pounds, which is. 23031 pounds more than 

 they produced when fown in equally diltant rows with the drill. 

 This difference ought never to be forgot. 



" The new method of laying the land out in beds, has ftill greater 

 advantages than this. Our comparifon has been only of the neat 

 produce of 169 acres which were fown the fame year in the three 

 f^irms : but it is to be obferved, that thefe farms confifted of 1 69 

 acres more, which were under fallow for the next year's crop. 

 The neat produce of the crops of thofe 338 acres in the two years 

 of fowing them in equally diftant rows with the drill-plough, fup- 

 pofing both crops to be equal, would be 



Pounds. 



For the firft year, 169 acres, . • • ^73^ 



For the fecond year, for the 169 other acres 1 < 111738 



For the two years . . . 223476 



»* If thefe 338 acres were laid out in beds, they would be fown 

 each year, and their neat produce, fuppofing both years alike 

 would be. 



Pounds. 

 For the firfl year, 338 acres . . . 134769 



For the fecond year, 338 acres . . . 134769 



For the two years » » . . •'269538 



" So that this calculation proves plainly, that the 338 acres will 

 produce 46062 pounds of wheat more when cultivated in beds, 

 than when fown in equally diflant rows with the drill-plough : 

 a difference which, in ten years, will amount t^ 230310 pounds of 

 grain. (-. 



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