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meafured feven inches in length, and contained be- 
tween fixty and feventy grains. 
The whole number of ears, which by the procefs 
befo: ementioned were produced from one grain of 
wheat, was twenty one thoufand one hundred and 
nine, which yielded three pecks and three quarters 
of clear corn ; the weight of which vvas forty feven 
pounds, feven ounces; and, from a calculation made 
by counting the number of grains in one ounce, 
the whole number of grains might be about five 
hundred and feventy fix thoufand eight hundred and 
forty. 
By this account we find, that there was only one 
general divifion of the plants made in the fpring. 
Had a fecond been made, the number of plants, Mr. 
Miller thinks, would have amounted, at leaf!;, to two 
thoufand, inftead of five hundred ; and the produce 
have been much enlarged.. For he found by the 
experiment made the preceding year,, in which the 
plants were divided twice in the fpring, that they 
were not weakened by the fecond divifion. He men- 
tions this to {Lew, that the experiment was not pufhed: 
to the utmoft. 
The ground, in which this experiment was made, 
is a light blackifh foil upon a gravelly bottom, and 
eonfequently a bad foil for wheat. One half of the 
ground was very much dunged ; the other half was 
not prepared with dung, or any other manure : no 
difference was however difcoverable in the vigour or 
growth of the plants, nor was there any in their pro- 
duce. 
Mr. Miller adds, that he omits making any con- 
jectures of the probability of turning this experiment 
to 
