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The expence of planting out was, by a 
fkilful farmer, eftimated at one guinea 
per acre, fuppofing the work to be 
chiefly done by women and children. 
Ait this time (June 14) the plants make 
a fine appearance, not one of them hav- 
ing failed. Should this experiment an- 
{wer the purpofe for which it is made, 
it is propofed after the crop is cut down, 
to have the land well plowed and ma- 
nured, in order to prepare it for recei¥- 
ing another crop of tranfplanted wheat 
in the {pring ; and it is alfo propofed to 
continue the experiment for a number of 
fucceflive years, in order to determine 
the doubtful point, “ Whether wheat can 
be raifed for a feries of years upon the 
fame land?” Independantly, however, of 
the original purpofe for which the expe- 
riment was inftituted, there is reafon 
to fuppofe, that the tranfplantation of 
wheat for a fingle year, will turn out a 
beneficial improvement. 
The following reajons prefent themfelves : 
1. The fcheme faves eleven-cwelfths 
of the feed ufua'ily fown. | 
2. It employs the feeble hands of the 
village at a time when they have but 
little work. 
3. Land that in winter has become 
too wet for fowing, may be planted in 
the {pring, whereby it will be kept in 
its regular courfe of tillage. 
4. The wheat may be hoed at a 
fmall expence. which will keep the 
land clean, and fave hand-weeding in 
fummer. 
'§- Phe crop will probably exceed in’ 
euantity. 
6. ft will give the farmer a tafte for 
garden culture, which will infenfibly re- 
move that flovenlinefs too generally ob- 
ferved in farming operations. 
7. Wheat may be tranf{planted upon 
ony land, however light, if a judgment 
may be formed from a {mall experiment 
made this year upon a piece of land, al- 
moft too lignt for rye. 
8. As it feems to be an eftablifhed law 
in nature, that land will not pufh up 
more ftalks from one feed than fhe can 
well fupport, it fellows that the greater 
the furfaee a plant has to ftand upon, the 
greater will be the numberof ftems pro- 
duced. In this mode of culture, each 
plant has eighty-one imches of foil to 
grow upon, whereas in the broad-caft 
hufbandry, the plants have only twelve 
inches. 
9. Land, inftead of lying wafte under 
afummer fallow, may be made to pro-~ 
duce 2 crop of cablages, turnips, peas, 
Dr. Hunter's new Mithod of raifing Wheat. iL} 
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beans, potatoes, or fummer vetches, as 
Preparatory to its being planted with 
wheat. 
10. Should experience prove the juf- 
nefs of this idea, a field of five acres, 
kept conftaatly under tranfplanted wheat, 
will aiford a fuffiicient fupply of bread- 
corn for a family of fourteen perfons. 
*.* This experiment was made ina 
field at Middlethorp, near York, belong- 
ing to Samuel Barlow, Efq. 
Cbfervations.—The crop was much 
neglected during its growth, not having 
been properly hoed. Befides, it was 
much blighted and mildewed, owing,’as 
fuppofed, to its growing in the middle 
of a field of very tall oats, whereby it was 
deprived of afree circulation of air. ‘An 
experienced farmer eftimated the lofs by 
mildew and neglect, at fix buthels per 
acre. Produce eleven pecks; which is 
at the rate of twenty-two bufhels per 
acre. 
EXPERIMENT I].—Produce of tranf{- 
planted wheat on one hundred and one 
{quare yards, or the forty-eighth part of 
an acre—four pecks. This produce is 
at the rate of forty-eight bufhels per 
acre. [he plants nine inches from each 
other. t. 
Cbfervations.—The land on whick 
this experiment was made, was bettér 
wheat land than the former, and every 
neceflary attention was beftowed upon 
the crop. ilaving been planteda month 
later than the other experiment, with a 
view tu afcertain the belt time for tranf- 
planting, the plants were thereby in- 
duced to tiller more than neceffary, during 
the whole of the fummer. Jam inclined 
to think, that the fecond week in March, 
is the beft time for tranfplanting wheat, 
for about that time the fecond roats begin 
to fprout from the crown. Jn both: exs 
periments, the ears of corn were uncom-= 
monly long. “From the great {pace al- 
lowed for ,each’plant (eighteen inches), 
it becomes effentially neceflary that the 
land fhould have two, if not three, hoe- 
ings during the fummer. It will be al- 
moft unneceffary to remark, that when 
wheat is intended to be cultivated for 
feries of years on the fame land, thae 
the fame quantity of manure, and the 
fame number of plowipgs, fhould be an- 
nually beffowed upon it, as if only in- 
tended fora fingle crop. It is propofed 
to continue thefe lands under wheat for 
fome fuccelfive years, in order to deter- 
mine whether the fame land can be 
made to produce wheat for a feries of 
years, a thing of great importance, and 
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