130 Of Wheat. Chap. It. 



I anfwer, that they judge right, if the Produce of 

 the whole Field be not of equal Goodnefs ; but if it 

 be not, it muft be becaufe one Part of the Field is 

 richer, or differently managed from the other Part : 

 For the fame Caufes that produce Twenty Ounces of 

 clean Wheat upon one Yard, muft produce the fame 

 Quantity upon every Yard, of a Million of Acre?. 



When the Crop of half a Field is fpoiled by Sheep, 

 not hoed at ail, or improperly, it would be ridicu- 

 lous to compute the whole Field together for an Ex- 

 periment : We might indeed weigh the poorer!, to 

 prove the Difference of the one from the other, to 

 try (as they fometimes feem to do) how poor a Crop 

 we can raife ; but my Defign was, to try how good 

 a Crop I could raife with a Tenth Part of the com- 

 mon Expence. 



And I have often weighed the Produce of the fame 

 Quantity of Ground (e) 9 of all Sorts of fown Wheat, 

 both the bed and the worft ; but never have found 

 any of the fown equal to the bed of my drilled. 

 Indeed we have none of the richeft Land (f) in our 



becaufe there was a frnall Part once fallowed Eight or Nine Years 

 £go, and a little Dung laid on another Part about the laft Mi- 

 chaelmas, after the Crop of Oats was taken off. But this being a 

 Year in which Dung is obferved to have little or no Effect on 

 fo<vjn Wheat (my Dung being weak and laid thin), 'tis the fame 

 here ; for thofe Rows which are in the dunged Part, can hardly 

 be diftinguiflied from the reft of the Rows which had not been 

 dunged : And yet the Ends of the Rows which were cleanfed of 

 Weeds, are very diflinguifhable by the Colour of the Wheat, 

 though fome are the Thud, and fome the Fourth Crop fince the 

 Difference was made; and the ivbo/e Rows managed alike every 

 Year, from that time to this; fo that here Un-exhauiiion is more 

 effe&cal than Dung. This is certain, that neither Dung nor Fal- 

 low hath been near the Part wherein my Experiments were made. 



(e) I allow Two fquare Yards of their Crops to One Yard in 

 Length of my Treble Row. 



(f) I am forry that this Farm, whereon I have pra&ifed Horfe- 

 hoeing, being fituate on an Hill, that con fills of Chalk on one 

 Side, and Heath ground on the other, has been ufually noted for 

 the pooreit and fhalloY/eft Soil in the Neighbourhood. 



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