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*' may conclude, dxiU the diftance of the rows increafes the produce 

 ^' of an equal number of plants ; or, which comes to the fanie, that 

 V,4}n equal quantity of feed will produce more grain when the rows 

 " are more diilant, than when they are fown clofer together. But 

 "■ this Is not a real profit, heccvufe the fix double rows take up onc- 

 " third more ground than the fiJC triple rows. 



" Each of the fmgle rows yielded feven-eights of a bufliel, which 

 " is 6ne-fcventh more than the triple rows, tho' they took UjO no 

 *' niore ground; and their produce v/ould probably have been 

 "greater, if they had been hoed two or three times more. 



'•' It appears by this account, that the proiit would probably have 

 <' been on the fide of the Rouble rows, if the alleys had been made 

 "only four feet wide, inftead of five: for by this means I Ihould 

 " have gained one-fifth more ground, and four feet are a fufficient 

 « width for the operations of the horfe-hoe. V/here the fingle 

 " rovvs are fo near as in this experiment, the fame ground would 

 " fcarcely bear another crop the next year, for want of having been 

 " fufficiently ftlrred. To clear up this point by a new experiment, I 

 " have fown fingle rows in the middle of four beds, two of which are 

 " four feet wide, and the two others only three. The winter hoe- 

 " ings have been given them with eafe, and I hope the others will 

 " not be more ditficult ; at leaft till all the corn is fpindled. What 

 *• I fear moft is, the earth's being carried off the narrow fpace on 

 " which the rows ftand, when the thaw comes on, or by the heavy 

 " rains which are frequent with us *. 



" The reft of my field is fowed in two rows, in beds four feet 

 " two inches wide. I have done this, becaufe, as it is the general 

 " cuftom here to make our ridges about that breadth, I am in hopes 

 " that if I obtain a plentiful crop, I fliall be able the more eafily to 

 « prevail on the farmers of this country to adopt a method, the 

 " advantage of which I w^as fenfible of, even before I tried the 

 <' above experiments. 



* Thefe accidents, fays M. Duhairel, may be prevented, by making tlic farrow 

 in the middle of the alleys, at a greater diftance from the rows ; tl.c water will thea 

 bo cirained off, without hurting the plants ; and in March, the horfi-hoe may be 

 hrouoht almnrt clofc to the rows, to loofcn the mould about the rosts, without any 

 fear or vl^nger. 



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