[ 8 3 



£> J. d. 



Profit by feed favcd on fix acres, being nine 



bufhels, at 5s. per bufhcl — —250 



Ditto by increafe of produce,— fay fix pecks 



per acre on an average,— »nine bufhcis -250 



4 10 o 

 Expence of fetting fix acres, 8s. per acre -280 



£.2 2 o 



which is feven fhiHings per acre. But ther« are 

 other advantages that I have not yet mentipned. 

 A very great one I experienced laft year, when, 

 froni the heavy rains which fell in the fummer, all 

 my fown wheat was more or lefs laid, none of my 

 fet wheat was at all fo j by which I fuffered lefs lofs 

 in reaping the latter than the former, and the corn 

 was much fuperior in quality. 



It has been found, that on ray-grafs . Hubbies, or 

 lands foul with twitch-grafs or other wceds^ the 

 corn being fet on the middley^ inftead of running 

 (as it does by fowing) into the fpace between the 



>,^ 1* This is an excellent remark, and ftri<SVIy juft, although W€ appre- 

 hend fcldom attended to by thofe who, either from prejudice agaiuft 

 this improvement, or from never being eye-witnefles of the great ad- 

 vantages arifing from the pradice, have haftily and inconiiderately 

 cenfured it: 



Though we apprehend few good farmers would fb\r lands which 

 are foul with couch or twitcli ; and as to the annual weeds, the produce 

 of ail lands, they can do no iiarm at wiieatieed time, 



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