wheat. :;<i; 



taken up and divided, and the rest between 

 that time and the middle of October. This 

 second division produced sixty-seven plants. 

 These plants remained through the winter, 

 and another division of them made between 

 the middle of March and the 12th of April, 

 produced five hundred plants. They were 

 then divided no farther, but permitted to re- 

 main. The plants were in general stronger 

 than any of the wheat in the fields. Some 

 of them produced upwards of one hundred 

 ears from a single root. Many of the ears 

 measured seven inches in length, and con- 

 tained between sixty and seventy grains. 

 The whole number of the ears which, by the 

 process above mentioned, were produced 

 from one grain of wheat, was twenty-one thou- 

 sand one hundred and nine, which yielded 

 three pecks and three quarters of clear corn, 

 the weight of which was forty-seven pounds 

 seven ounces ; and from a calculation made 

 by counting the number of grains in an ounce, 

 the whole number of grains was about five 

 hundred and seventy-six thousand, eight 

 hundred and forty. 



By this account we find, that there was 

 only one general division of the plants made 

 in the spring. Had a second been made. 



