100 Mr. V Hommcdieu on Manuring Land with Shelhy 'zdc. 



the beft of it yielded a bufhel per acre, on an average fay forty 

 pounds (the one half of whichlgave for gathering) ^there would 

 have been much more had it not been for the difficulty of 

 collefting among ftubble which mufl principally be done by 

 hand j there is no doubt but this five acres will yield at leaft 

 one ton of hay to the acre the next feafon. The computation 

 of profits on this five acres is a^ follows : 



The one half of the crop, on an average, fay 



7 bufhels wheat per acre at 8s. - - £" 2 i6 o 



20 lb. Clover-feed - - - - -loo 



Deduct 2o tons of manure, at is. 2d. 

 The neat profit per acre is 



The land was not worth more than forty (hillings per acre ; 

 but by this tillage, the land, by the loweft computation, mufl 

 now be worth five pounds per acre, which makes the difference 

 of three pounds, which being added to the neat-profit, makes 

 five pounds twelve fliiUings and eight pence clear gain per acre. 

 Three acres of this piece of land, directly after the wheat was 

 fown, was covered with drift fea-weed, which coft nothing 

 but the carting : Early in the fpring it was fowed with clover 

 feed, the fea-weed prevented any injury to the wheat from the 

 winter, the kernel was good, and yielded eight bufhels to the 

 acre : the clover came up well, but did not produce more 



