[ 88 ] 



*Tbree bujheh of feed. 



Crep. Cnp, 



Numb. 17. — 16 Numb. 56. — 21 



18. — 20 58. — 24 



21. — 19 60. — 24 



25.-24 61. — 3P 



28. — 24 62. — 20 



36. — 24 69. — 35 

 Average product of thefe, 23 bufhels, 1 peck. 



As there are only two numbers where 

 the feed exceeds three, one twenty and 

 the other twenty-fix, averages cannot be 

 drawn ; but it is obfervable, that one of 

 thefe places exceeds by three bufhels the 

 average product from three of feed. 

 Product from 3 »*- 23 1 

 from 2i — 22 2 

 from 2 v— ' 22 o 

 The difference between thefe numbers 

 is not great, but it is enough to give us 

 reafon for thinking, that the writers who 

 talk largely of the vaft lofs of over- feeding, 

 rather exaggerate the matter. They affert, 

 that the farmers lofe infinitely by over- 

 fowing : It is true, the ballance between 

 two, and two and a half, is perfectly equal, 

 but yet there is no lofs by fowing two and 

 a half, which ought to be considerable ac- 

 cording to fuch authors, and the ballance 

 between two and a half and three, is one 

 peck in favour of the latter, which is to- 

 tally 



