54 OATS. 



and 1785, I had a mind, the following season, 

 to try the same experiment with white oats ; and 

 began by sowing one acre, in December 1785, with 

 one coomb of seed, harrowed in upon a wheat 

 stubble, with one earth. Value of land 10s. 

 acre. 



" In January 1780, I sowed exactly another 

 by the side of it, with the same quantity of see 

 and dressed it in the same manner. In February, 

 another acre the same, except half a bushel 7c.s.v 

 seed. In the beginning of March I ploughed the 

 remaining part of the piece of land a second time ; 

 and, about the middle of that month, sowed it, at 

 the rate of three bushels of seed an acre, ploughing 

 in one cast, or half the seed, and harrowing in 

 the other half ; and marked out another acre for 

 the experiment. This last acre had three clean 

 earths. 



" Produce of the four acres : 



c. B. P. 



On that sown in December, - 8 2 O 



January, 3 2 



February, - 6 2 1 



March, 6 

 Or seed deducted : 



On that sown in December, - / 2 O 



January, 532 



February, - 523 



March, 532 



" That sown in December, though it came up 

 thick enough at first, lost so much of its plant, 

 by the winter frosts, that I expected it must have 



been 



