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6. The alleys between the fingle rows were hoed but twice, 

 •' being too narrow to admit the plough, after the plants had begun 

 " to branch. However, I had no reafon to complain of the pro- 

 ** duce of thefe fmgle rows. 



" Having now given an account of my operations, it is time to 

 *' fay what the produdls were. 



" The ears of my rows were from four to feven inches long, and 

 *' the ftalks from four to fix feet high, which was one third higher 

 •* than in the neighbouring fields, cultivated in the old way. 



" This fpot of ground, in the heft years, never produced more 

 ** than five bufliels, including the buHiel of feed com ; for that was 

 " the quantity generally ufed : in common years, it has not yielded 

 "above four buOiels, and frequently much lefs. We therefore 

 " cannot reckon its produce, one year with another, at more than 

 " four bufliels, including all faulty grains and feeds of weeds, 

 " which fall through the fieve, and remain mixed with the good 

 "grain. This year it has yielded me feven bufliels of- fine clean 

 " rye, confiderably larger than the common fort. I make no ac- 

 " count of the feed, the quantity was fo fmall. To prevent this 

 " grain's being mixed with any other, and at the fame time to judge 

 " more exadlly of the produce of my ground, I had the flieaves 

 " threfhed out clofe by the field : but it was in the middle of a 

 " road, where all the grains fcattered by the ftail could not be ga- 

 *' thered up: by. which I reckon I loft more than the amount of 

 " the feed that Vv^as fown in the rows. The produce of my little 

 " field was therefore this year, compared to other years, as feven is 

 "to four; to which muft be added, that it is capable of bearing as 

 " great a crop every year, which is not the cafe in the commoa. 

 " hufbandry. 



*' Let us now examine the produce of the rows, and compare 

 " them one with another, in order to judge whether it be moft pro- 

 *' fitable to fow in fingle,. double, or triple rows. 



" Two beds> the moft diftant from the hedge, fown with triple 

 " rows, yielded three quarters of a builiel each. 



" Two beds with double rows, yielded each two thirds of a 

 " buftiel : confequently the three beds with double rows yielded 

 " two buftiels,- and the fix rows fov^^n two and two, in three beds, 

 " yielded one quarter more than the fix rows fown three and three 

 " in two. beds : but two beds of three rows a-piece yielded one- 

 ** ninth more than two beds of only two rows a-piece : whence we 



" may 



