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TRACTS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, &c. 



they would all liave had the full benefit of the rainy seasons, 

 and a better produce might have been expected. To these seed 

 times I shall, in future, pay the strictest attention ; having seen 

 numerous instances of the bad effects of being too late in putting 

 plants, or seeds, in the ground. 



Barley wheat is of a darker hue than wheat in general : the 

 grains are smaller; and its relative weight with other corn appears 

 by the following comparison : 



1 have already stated, that the produce from 2280 dibble holes 

 weighed 135 pounds (or 2160 ounces) ; this being the -^^^ part 

 of an ounce, is very nearly one ounce from one seed. 



Very different from this was the result of Mr. Arthur Young's 

 experiment in the year 1791, with common barley ; he found that 

 9|- seed grains produced no more than an ounce, whereas in my 

 second experiment 9^ seed grains of barley wheat must have 

 given 7to ounces, or about seven times the weight yielded from 

 common barley. 



An acre dibbled in rows, in the same manner as my second 

 experiment, would contain 58,080 holes ; wherefore, if 2280 

 holes yielded 2160 ounces, an acre would have produced 55,900 

 ounces ; or 3494 pounds avoirdnpoise. 



Let us now compare this produce with Mr. Young's experiment 

 above alluded to. 



On the 25th of April, 1791, he dibbled 198 grains of four rowed 

 * 100 grains of tlie first crop weighed only 40f . 



