TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 63 



From this fresh seed I hoped to establish a sufficient quantity 

 for extensive cultivation : and I have not been disappointed. I 

 accordingly prepared a spot in the garden, measuring 108 links 

 by 37, or about the 25th part of an acre. It was marked out in 

 rows 12 inches asunder, and the seed dibbled three inches deep 

 at 9 inches apart in the row. The number of dibble holes was 

 2280; but as 570 holes had two seeds in each, the number of 

 grains dibbled was 2850 : the following is the result. 



1811. March 16th. — Dibbled 2850 grains of barley Avheat 

 in 2280 holes, of which 570 had two seeds. 



21st. — Plants appeared. 



31st. — -Promising crop. 



May 15th. — Remarkably exuberant. 



26th. — Some in ear. 



June 4th. — Many in ear. 



9th. — Almost all in ear, a very fine crop. 



July 25th. — Nearly ripe. 



28th. — No difference between the produce of the plain and 

 bearded seed. In each there are some with beards and some 

 plain. The beards fall off as the crop ripens. 



29th. — Cut the crop. Produce 135 pounds from the 25th part 

 of an acre, is at the rate of 56^ bushels, at 60 pounds per acre. 



On the 3d of August this small quantity was spread over about 

 four acres and ploughed in. It is now a strong and exuberant 

 crop, full in ear, and promises a very abundant produce, even 

 more than sufficient to sow all the cultivated lands at present on 

 this island. 



Justice indeed has not been done to any of these experiments ; 

 they have all been too late in sowing. If the first had been sown 

 about the end of June, 1810, the second about the end of 

 December, and the last, now in the ground, in the end of June, 



