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" I own, from the appearance of the crop 

 *' whilft growing, and even after it was 

 4C reaped, I did expeft that the quantity from 

 " the four horfe-hoed acres would have been 

 ** more confiderable. Indeed I can account 

 4C for fome diminution of the crop from the 

 44 following accidents, viz. the horfe-hoed 

 44 corn ripened unequally, owing, as was be- 

 4 fore obferved, to the exce flive wet feafon ; 

 44 and, as it was later reaped than the other, 

 44 it was more expofed to the depredation of 

 44 fparrows and other birds, which certainly 

 " got part of it. And, being firft carried 

 " into a Dutch barn, and removed fome time 

 44 afterwards into a common barn to be 

 44 thremed, there was not only a lofs by feat- 

 " tered feed in the removal, but likewife by 

 44 pigeons, which devoured a good part, 

 44 having a conftant and free accefs to the 

 44 tops and (ides of the barn where it was firfl 

 4 depofited. Whereas the produce of the 

 44 parts cultivated in the Old way, and drilled 

 44 in equally-diftant rows, was carried into 

 46 the barn, and thremed immediately, and 

 44 therefore not liable to the ravages of ver- 

 4 * min, or to any other lofs. 



44 But it muft be allowed notwithfbnding, 

 44 from this experiment, that the advantage 

 44 appears to be on the fide of the Old me- 

 " thod. On the other hand, although fix 

 44 quarters on an acre is confefledly a very 

 ' large incrcafe from land fown in the common 



M 3 4 ' manner, 



