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Mr. Y.'s General Obfervations on thefe crops.

1. This wet year makes the profit by broad caft And lofs by drilling

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Reviewer's Reflections.

On Experiment 18th, A drill'd crop after a drill'd one, answers not fo well as after clover.

20th, The fame reflection.

21ft, Produce was equal in the crops compared; but the expence of

the drill'd funk it..

We fee not that the manure had more effect in the broad caft..

General Obfervation on thefe crops.

We fee not by any means how Mr. Y. can account for wet years being bad for drill'd corn, by the rain coming too much to it. On the contrary, the greater field-room it has fhould make it dry fooner. R.

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Query, What can Mr. Y. mean (p. 178) by faying, on Experiment 18, that 21. is a very confiderable profit this year?' No fuch profit appears. R.

Mr. Y. has in the year 1767 five Experiments on divided Roods each.

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2. Drill'd corn is more faccessful than it was last year. 3. Mr. Y. doubts whether wetnefs be against drilling.

N. B. For 1765 read 1767 in p. 191 of Mr. Y.

4. In many cafes a fingle year, not a fucceffion of years, is to be confidered for profit, viz. where we have peculiar wants.

On the four Years Comparifons Mr. Y. fhews that

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On an average of crops of wheat in the two methods in various cafes (viz. as fucceeding fallows, beans drill'd and broad caft, clover and drill'd wheat) one acre in the old husbandry is equal to three in the new.' Honeft, ingenuous, and important! R. On the 23d Experiment (the only one this year in which the drill'd crop exceeded in profit) the former had great advantage in having the bean land ftirred much more; but what were the comparative profits of the two bean crops compared ?

Mr. Y. justly calls the fubject of the fourth fection of the first chapter of the first book, viz. quantity of feed, an untrodden ground,' and propofes to reduce his Experiments thereon to what is abjolutely neceffary, as he owns his papers voluminous enough.

He has in the year 1764, fix Experiments on this fubject in the old Hufbandry.

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Mr. Y.'s Conclufions on the above crops.

On all Experiments, that 1 bufhel per acre is far too little

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2. On Experiment 5th, that 3 bushels for the first time decreases in produce.

3. Cn Experiment 6th, that 3 bufhels exceed all the reft.

› His Obfervations.

1. One would expect lefs feed fhould be better fed; but land, if not flock'd with corn, will with weeds.' P. 206.

2. Experiment 4th is on clover lay, 5th and 6th, on fallow.

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4 Three bushels of feed the beft quantity, is contrary to all modern ideas.

Thefe Experiments militate ftrongly against drillers, one of whofe principal boafts is faving of feed. R.

Mr. Y. has, in 1765, feven Experiments, most of them in eight parts.

N. B. The head line fhews the feed, and the produce is oppofite to the number of the Experiment.

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Mr. Y.'s General Conclufion on thefe crops.

1. That the most profitable quantity of feed this year is 2 bushels 2 pecks.

2. That the grand average to be drawn from all must be of peculiar advantage.' P. 230.

Quere, Is not the drynefs of 1765 an adequate reafon why 2 bushels and 2 pecks may fucceed as well as 3 bushels in 1764?" R. Mr. Y.'s Conclufions and Obfervations on the crops of 1765. On Experiment 1. As 2 bufhels give more than 3 bushels, lofs by 3 bufhels is 35 s. per acre; and 2 bufhels 2 pecks, are better than 3 bushels by 21. 15 s. per acre.

2. To Experiment 9, Mr. Y. adds, 4 bushels 2 pecks give 1 quarter 1 bushel, and 5 bushels only 1 quarter.

3. On Experiment 10, he obferves, that after good clover 4 bushels give 2 quarters 2 bushels.

To Experiment 13, he adds, that on this richly manured field 4 bufhels 2 pecks give 2 quarters 4 bushels, and 5 bushels give 2 quarters i bufhel and 2 pecks.

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6. Mr. Y. obferves, that the average product of 4 bushels and z pecks is 1 quarter 2 bufhels, and that of 5 bushels is 7 bushels and 3 pecks *.

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Mr. Y.'s General Obfervations.

1. Two bushels 2 pecks is beft quantity. 2. The feafon of this year was oppofite to that of 1765.

In 1767 Mr. Y. has fix Experiments.

N. B. Laft table is here continued.

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N. B. In 1767, 5 bufhels produced in all Experiments 1 quarter 2 bufhels, except in No. 25, and in that only 1 quarter and 3 pecks. Mr. Y. obferves on crops of 1767, that many fields yielded only 5 bushels per acre, and that in Experiment 24 above 5 facks per acre are produced.

N. B. Though thefe Experiments are made on quantities of ground much smaller than an acre, yet we give them in that proportion, as being more familiar, and therefore easy. R.

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Mr. Y.'s General Obfervation on thefe Experiments of the four years is,

They are made on clayey and gravelly loam, after fallows, and fallow crops of all forts,' The refult 2 bushels and 2 pecks best quantity. On his five Experiments of quantity of feed in the new husbandry, in 1754, Mr. Y. obferves, 1ft, that 2 bufhels and 2 pecks are ftrikingly the most advantageous quantity; and, zdly, that three rows are preferable to two, and two to one, in every quantity of feed. On the Experiments in 1765, on this fubject, Mr. Y. obferves, in the 6th, 2 bushels 2 pecks are the best quantity, and when fown in treble rows on the 7th, the fame: on the sth, that the greatest produce is from 2 bufnels in one foot rows; next from 2 bufhels 2 pecks in ditto; next from 2 bushels in 18 inch rows; then from 1 buhel 2 pecks in one foot rows; and lastly, from 2 bushels 2 pecks in one foot rows: on the 11th, that 2 bufhe's is the best quantity, and diftance of 6 inches inferior to 12: on the 12th, that 2 bufhels is the beft quantity; but 2 bufhels 2 pecks comes nearer than hitherto on the 13th, that 2 bushels 2 pecks, in treble rows, are the beft; and that i bufhel peck produces as much in one row as in three; a phenomenon unaccountable! On the 14th, 15th, and 17th, that 2 bufhels 2 pecks are the fuperior quantity; but that in the 16th, 18th, and 19th, 2 bushels beat (our Author's word) 2 bushels 2 pecks in rows 12 inches afunder. Mr. Y.'s Particular Conclufions.

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On 8th, One foot is the beft diftance, and others are better as nearer to it; but distance is not chiefly confiderable.

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* On 10th, General effect proves that the more rows the better.' On 16th, One foot is the proper distance for equidiftant rows.'

His General Conclufions.

1. But quantity varies betwixt 2 bushels 2 pecks, and 2 bushels; but as 1 bufhel peck is in feveral Experiments the best, the 2 bushels feem likelieft to be best.

2. Equidiftant rows at 12 inches, then at 18 inches, are best.

3. Horfe-hoed crops come next.

4. Three feet intervals beat four feet intervals.

5. Thefe fuperior diftances require a fallow, which horse-hoed crops

do not.

Reviewer's Conclufions.

1. The 2 bushels proving beft, may be owing to the drynefs of 1765.

2. One bufhel peck is feldom fuperior; fo that our conclufion is the contrary of Mr. Y.'s, viz. that 2 bufhels 2 pecks seem best on the whole.

3. Whether 2 bufhels 2 pecks, or only 2 bushels, be the best quantity, it militates ftrongly against drillers.

N. B. Experiment 9th is wanting.

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