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die produce of lands cultivated according to the old hufbandry, and 

 according to the new, that every one may judge which of the two 

 will anfwer beft. 



" This parallel will fhew how much the new hufbandry is fupe- 

 rlor in point of advantage, to the old. We are to fuppofe all the 

 circumftances of the feafons to be like thofe of the years of which we 

 have compared the produfts. But as the expence of culture is an 

 objedl well worth confidering, and as that expence may not be equal 

 in both ways, I beg leave to lay down here as a fad:, That the 

 charge of the new culture is lefs than that of the old. I have 

 tried it, and find it fo ; as I fliall, hereafter, prove beyond dif- 

 pute. 



■ " By the old culture, in the eilate I now cultivate in the new way, 

 i fliould have had but two fields fowed in 1752, to be reaped in 

 1573 ' '^''^- ^^^^ °^ ^^^ experiment No. IV. and that of the experi- 

 ment No. 5. Thefe two fields contain together 22599 toifes. I 

 have calculated the produce of thefe two fields during 1 6 years, viz. 

 from 1730, to 1745 inclufively. They have yielded eight crops in 

 this time, the total produce of which has been 146863 pounds of 

 wheat: deducting from which 42130 pounds for the feed fowed 

 in the eight years, the neat produce will be reduced tp 104733 

 pounds.* 



" It is proper to obferve, that this wheat was meafured every year 

 in the barn, as foon as it was threflbed, and before it was fifted : an 

 operation which always occafions a ccnfiderable diminution, tho' we 

 make no allowance for it here. 



" Let us now fee what crops the preceding experiments give us 

 room reafonably to expedl from the fame two fields in fixteen fuc- 

 cefiive years of the new hufbandry ; to judge only by that of this 

 firfl year 1753, unfavourable as it is. 



" The field. No. IV, was fowed, half in beds, and half In equally 

 diflant rows. I am obliged to fuppofe it to have been fowed entirely 

 in beds J for it cannot be douhted but that the part which was 

 fowed in rows, would have produced as much as the other : confe- 

 quently the whole crop of the two halves, at 3370 pounds each, 

 would have been 6740 pounds. 



" As the fame fields yield a crop every year, in the new hufbandry, 



A a we 



* The fields which were fowed alternately during the eight other years, though 

 their extent was fomewhat larger, yielded ilill lefs grain. Their whole produce was 

 Vit 114331 pounds. 



