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Q. In what condition was the land, how cropped and manured 

 in the three last years preceding the experiment 1 



A. Cropped with potatoes, 18 years of the 20 years preceding 

 the experiment. 



Q. What area is thus used 1 



A. Two acres, containing 43,000 feet each, 



Q. What is the surface soil, as eand, clay, loam, gravel, &c. t 



A. Brown loam. 



Q. What is the subsoilt 



A. Bride earth. 



Q. Is the land plain or in stetohes (ridges,) or lands ; and of 

 what size 1 



Unanswered. 



Q. How many grains dropped in each hole, and how deept 



A. Three or four grains; about two inches deep, taking IJ 

 peck per acre. 



Q. What kind of wheat? 



Unanswered. 



Q. When is the land seeded t 



A. Early in October. 



Q. Are we to understand the dibbling as distant one foot 

 between the rows, and also along e^ch row, i. e., one footsquaret 



A. The distance between the rows is one foot, and between the 

 holes in each row three or four inches. 



Unasked. 



A. Annually manured with 3© or 60 bushels of coal eoot per 

 acre, in March or April. 



The grower, Mr. J. D. Piper, of Colne Engine, near Colchester, 

 England, has now grown on this same pieoe of land seven suc- 

 cessive crops of wheat, without on any occasion, allowing a 

 plow to turn over a single furrow. The soil, in fact, has not 

 < been disturbed by plough, gpade, orany other implement; the 

 only thing used has been a hoe, and this has not been employed 

 to loosen the soil ; but only to remove tho gujfaae weeds to burn 



