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sixty to sixty-seven bushels on the best lands. The 

 average, in six rice growing states of North America, 

 is at the same time only nine and a half bushels.* 



In China, replanting is also in general use, and con- 

 sequently the idea has been circulated in France by 

 M. Eugene Simon and the late M. Toubeau, that 

 replanted wheat could be made a powerful means of 

 increasing the crops in Western Europe.f So far as 

 I know, the idea has not yet been submitted to a 

 practical test ; but when one thinks of the remarkable 

 results obtained by Hallet's method of planting ; of 

 what the market-gardeners obtain by replanting once 

 and even twice ; and of how rapidly the work of 

 planting is done by market-gardeners in Jersey, one 

 must agree that in replanted wheat we have a new 

 opening worthy of the most careful consideration. 

 Experiments have not yet been made in this direction ; 

 but Prof. Grandeau, whose opinion I have asked on 

 this subject, wrote to me that he believes the method 

 must have a great future. Practical market-gardeners 

 (Paris maraicher) whose opinion I have asked, see, of 

 course, nothing extravagant in that idea. 



With plants yielding 1,000 grains each and in the 

 Capelle experiment they yielded an average of 600 

 grains the yearly wheat-food of one individual man 

 (5'65 bushels, or 265 Ibs.), which is represented by from 

 5,000,000 to 5,500,000 grains, could be grown on a 



* Dr. M. Fesca, Seitrdge zur Kenntniss der Japanesischen 

 Landvrirthschaft, Part ii., p. 33 (Berlin, 1893). The economy 

 in seeds is also considerable. While in Italy 250 kilogrammes 

 to the hectare are sown, and 160 kilogrammes in South Carolina, 

 the Japanese use only sixty kilogrammes for the same area. 

 (Semler, Tropi*che AgrikuUur, Bd. iii., pp. 20-28.) 



t Eugene Simon, La cit6 chinoise (translated into English) ; 

 Toubeau, La repartition m&rique des impots, 2 vols., Paris 

 (Guillaumin), 1880. 



