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_ftick break the edges of the holes, that the mould might cover tl "was purpofely felected for the occafion; but it proved fo w

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the winter, ail the young fprouts died, or were eaten up by vermin.- On the

fecond of March, 1801, fome women were hired to take up with a bricklayer’s

= c wy ae Vth° yr 5 trowel plants of wheat from another field, where the crop was very luxuriant.

_Thefe were planted into the vacant fpaces by children, large holes for them being

i RARE PS:: é previouily made by the handle of a fpade, pointed at its end. The children were

watched very attentively, making them arrange the roots of the plants, and witha

yem. Wet weather et, that they were delayed 10le of which time two or three wheelbarrows full of plants were lying expofed on the tumbril ready for infertion. Thefe plants were ufed, not without fome apprehenfion.

for more than a week; during the wl

The tranfplanting was not concluded till the 21 ft of the month(March). At harveft-time it would have been impoflible

to have diftinguithed the tranfplanted from the drilled wheat, but that the plants of the former were placed confiderably wider from each other. It is imagined, from recollection only, that the plants, on an average, formed fquares of from twelve to fourteen inches with each other. They branched abundantly, and bore well; the ears were as numerous and as heavy as the drilled wheat. There were certainly four acres tranfplanted. The expenfe of the bufinefs cannot be well eftimated, becaufe of its irregularity in this particular cafe. At the time it was tran{planted, wheat fold at about fixty-five fhillings percoomb. Two bufhelsan acre would have been inferted, and the fetting, on account of the irregularity, would certainly have been twelve fhillings per acre.?

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It is not believed that the expenfe of the undertaking much exceeded a fourth part of this. It is fuppofed that the whole bufinefs of tranfplanting might be done for thirteen or fourteen fhillings an acre; and one acre of feed plants would fuffice for a great many acres. When the plants are taken froma crop which is intended to remain, the holes which the trowel makes fhould be preffed down with the foot, in order that they may be filled with earth, and not expofed to drought or too much wet. In trying experiments of this fort, it is be{t not to venture on too large a fcale

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