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lion the quantity of the feed to the strength and richnessof the foil, so that each may have its due proportion. Theexperiments already made, help to direct us ; butl thinkothers still necessary, before we can trust absolutely to ourknowledge in this point.

" At present I shall only advise sowing the same quan-tity of seed as I did in 1752. I fancy that proportionwill not differ greatly from what a longer practice willsliew to be best. However, the fame quantity of feedwill not do for every soil. It must be varied with judg-ment, and regulated according to the circumstances ofthe season, and the better or worse condition of the land.

I think, too, that in the first, and even the second year ofthe trials which may be made, it will be proper to sow alittle thicker than 1 did in 1 752. The farmer will easilyperceive, that when his lands are well loosened andbrought to a good tilth, they will require less seed ; buttill then, he will do well not to be over-fparing of it.

“ 10. We cannot yet determine so exactly as we couldwist), what breadth the beds, including the allys, shouldbe of, to make the ground produce the greatest quantityof corn ; nor whether it would be best to sow more or lessthan three rows. We confess, that we should be gladto see a longer series of accurate experiments, and to havea greater knowledge of this matter before we pretendto fix it. Our beds have always been about six feetwide.

" M. Duhamel, who first introduced this New Hus-bandry in France, intends to make experiments by sow-ing only two rows. If they should yield more grain, thebreadth of the beds may certainly be diminished : and asit is of consequence to multiply and vary experiments, inorder to determine this point, we now have several bedssown, some in two, and some in three rows. I havelikewise tried what multiplying the number of rows insome fields would do ; and the result of this experimentpromises an advantage in that way of sowing. The suc-cess of this first trial was as follows.

« When the field was sowed, I observed, among therest, ten beds which the ploughman had made wider thanthe others. I was sorry at first, that any part of the groundshould be lost ; but, upon second thoughts, I determinedto sow those beds with two turns of the drill-plough ;.andconsequently to plant them with six rows of wheat. Idid so; and when the first ploughing after winter wasgiven, litd’e regard was paid to the two outside rows,which were torn up by the plough in several parts ; so thatthere remained but four or five rows in those places.

" The wheat of these beds, not excepting even themiddle rows, grew as high, and branched as much asthat of the others, in which there were but three rows.I examined them frequently with great care, and was as-sisted therein by several persons, very capable of judg-ing and making good observations. The only differencewe could-distinguish, and that was scarcely perceptible,was in the ears, which we thought rather shorter in themiddle rows than in the others: but as there was a great-er quantity of them, we judged that these beds wouldyield the most grain.

" We were not mistaken ; for their produce was asfollows ; the ten beds, sown with six rows each, yieldedninety-onc pounds of wheat more than ten beds sownwith three rows each. But as this result does not set thematter in a sufficiently clear light, we must have recourseto the following calculation. The six rowed beds took

up more ground than those which had but three row?-:two beds more might have been made out of the surplusof their breadth ; so that there would, in that case, havebeen twelve beds instead of ten. The question thereforeis, whether this ground, made into ten beds, producedmore than it would have done if it had been made intotwelve beds of three rows each. To which I answer,that it did produce thirty-eight pounds more ; and thatthere was likewise a seventh part more straw.

" As this experiment deserved to be repeated, I havetried it in a larger way. I have laid several acres out inbeds of about seven feet wide : they are sown with sixrows: the plants are very sine, and I impatiently waitthe event.

" Though I have continued not to dung my fields, theplants still grow very tall, and produce fine long ears, wpllfilled with plump grain.

" I am indebted to the New Husbandry for the reco-very and improvement of worn-out meadows. Theyhave already yielded me plenty of fodder, the value ofwhich ought to be added to the produce of the fields, be-cause the New Husbandry is the immediate cause thatmanure can be spared to enrich those meadows.

General Disposition of the Lands for the Crop of 1754.

" The more I have studied the principles of the New-Husbandry, the more I have been convinced of theadvan-tages attending it. My experiments have not only con-firmed me in this opinion ; but they have likewise shewedme, that my practice has been consistent with those prin"ciples. This made me determine to lay the whole of oneof my farms out in the new way, as soon as 1 possiblycould ; its extent being no more than I can direct almostthe whole culture of myself.

“ I have compleated it this year. All the fields, ofwhich only half used to be sowed every year in our oldway, are now laid out in beds. I have sowed them all,with a design to continue doing so for the suture everyyear. They look exceeding well hitherto : the plants areextremely fine, and promise a greater crop next year} than -that of the experiments of the foregoing years.

“ These experiments have likewise made a strong im-pression on several persons in this country, each of whom >judged of the New Husbandry, as his inclination, or'prospect of advantage, directed. It is true, our farmersare more generally inclined to sow their lands in equally-vdiflant rows, with the drill-plougb, than to lay them out -in beds; the proper management of which, fay they, is ’attended with much more care and trouble. My drill"plough is preferred on account of its simplicity. It be-*gan to be used last year, and numbers of fields near thiscity (Geneva) have been sowed with it this year.

“ Several of our peasants have likewise tried the drill"plough, and their example will be of consequence here-after. There unwiJbgness to come into any new prac-tice is well known: but this seems to get the better ottheir prejudices ; and the prospect they now have otgreater crops than usual, makes them regret their 1106having so wed a larger extent of ground in this manner._

“ We have about an hundred and fifty acres sowed mbeds, and r,If© near a thousand sowed in equally distantrows. Such large experiments, and made on differentsoils, cannot bin afford new instruction : the facts will b-better ascertained, and people will be more thoroug /

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