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*' fpring corn, is feldom worth half the firfl: : however, fuppofing it 

 " to be 16 meafures, as the land is refted the third year, the neat 

 *' produce of the crop for three years will be 48 meafures j which is 

 " 16 ineafures a year, and 96 meafures for the fix pojes. 



" I had, in the new way, 128 meafures of wheat and maflin ; 

 "deducting from which 18 meafures for the {cec\, there remain 

 " neat 1 10 meafures, and a profit of 14; for which I am indebted 

 *' to the new hufbandry. 



" If we add to this, the eight meafures loll by the fprouting 

 " of the grain, and the damage done by the plowing in autumn, it 

 " will appear that, without thofe two extraordinary accidents, I 

 " fliould have had 35 meafures more than could have been expected 

 " in the old way, and that of a corn, which, fuppofing all other 

 *' things equal, is worth 1 2 per ce?it. more than any of the common 

 " growth. 



" I make no doubt but that if I were to lav upon my furrows the 

 " dung that is fpread yearly upon my lands, and were to take all the 

 " precautions neceffary to fow and cultivate them properly, the neat 

 " produce would be 30 meafures, one year with another; which 

 " would be a continual plenty. 



" However that may be, thus much is certain in favour of the 

 " new hufbandry, that, notwithftanding all the accidents, my field 

 ** produced the fecond year above double the quantity that it did 

 " the firft. 



'Firji years produce of a field fow ed mid cidiivated according to the 



new hufbandry. 



" This field contains about 1900 of our perches, or 4200 perches 

 ■** of fix feet to the perch. It was divided into beds five feet wide, 

 " which were fown alternately with one and with two turns of the 

 " drill-plough, that is to fay, with three rows and with fix. The 

 " plowings had been but badly performed, and the beds were not 

 *• raifed or arched fo high as they fhouid have been. Thofe that 

 " were fov/n double, that is vith fix rows, were always fuperior to 

 " the reft. As the foil of th;3 field is generally fi:rong, and fit for 

 *• wheat, it did not' afford the fame variations as the former^ though 

 " fome of this wheat fprouted alfo. 



" I fcv/ed I J meafures, and reaped 92 ; befides the tythe. By the 

 ** fame cnlc'.laticns as before, the neat produce was one meafure lefs 

 ** than in the old v.'ay. 



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