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1762. 

 The fame field was again drilled this year ; 

 managed in all refpedts as before, the crop 

 eight bulhels per acre. 



1763. 

 Thefe fix acres were again drilled this 

 year : The culture as before : Product per 

 acre 10 buflaels. 



'764- . . ^ 



This year the field was drilled agani for 



the laft time, in the fame manner as before : 



The culture while growing alfo the fame, 



Produd: per acre nine bufliels. 



Obfervations, 



This experiment would have been con- 

 tinued ; but it was found on fo many 

 repeated trials to be very trivial and unpro- 

 fitable, that Mr. Scroope gave it up, tired out 

 with continued ill fuccefs : He gave a 

 regular attention to all the operations ; and 

 they were efFecftualiy and vigoroufly per- 

 formed ; the foil kept loofe and perfedly 

 clear of weeds. Had it been croped in the 

 old hufbandry, the profit would have been 

 confiderable, but in this method the lofs 

 was great. 



In general thefe crops were extremely 

 fubjed: to being laid by wind and rooks, 

 and then to being dcilroyed by mice; and 

 this infinitely more than any broadcaft crops. 

 \n this method the land Ihould not be at all 

 B b 4 expofed 



