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" Two ounces of Suratte wheat fowed in October, produced but 

 " three pennyweights of a very Hght and meagre grain. 



" Two ounces of the fame wheat fowed in March^ rofe well, but 

 " bore no ears. 



" Two ounces of Bengal wheat fowed in Ocftober, produced' 

 " twenty ounces of pretty fine grain. 



*' Two ounces of the fame wheat fowed in March, produced but, 

 " three ounces." 



It is to be obferved,. that the foil in which thefe differentgrains were 

 fow^n, though good, is clayey. M. le Vayer chofe it on purpofe 5- 

 not only becaufe it was new ground, but likewife becaufe its expo- 

 fition was due South, and it was flieltered on the north fide by a 

 high wall. All this feemed very proper for a grain v/hich came from. 

 k) very hot a country : and perhaps it might be owing to this pre- 

 caution, that the Bengal wheat fucceeded better with M. le Vayer,, 

 than at Denainvilliers. 



The Suratte wheat, which is reaped in the ifle of Bourbon four 

 months after it is fowed, did not ripen with M. le Vayer till eight or 

 ten days before the common wheat, tho' it was fowed in autumn.. 

 It is not to be doubted, but that if the fummer had been warm and 

 dry, thefe grains would have fucceeded better, and efpecially that, 

 which was fowed in the fpring : and probably that which was fowed 

 in autumn, would have perifhed in the winter, if that feafoahad. 

 not been extremely mild. 



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