2/0 EXPERIMENTS ON WHEAT, Part IT. 



" I find that thefe three farms, which contain about 130 acres, 

 and which wOuld have required 29484 pounds of feed, would 

 have produced at m oil from 75000 to 80000 pounds of wheat; 

 which is 54940 pounds lefs than what was reaped in the new way. 

 The following calculation of the real and eiiedtive produ6ls in both 

 ways, deducting from each the neceffary quantity of feed, will 

 ihew the, advantage of the new hufbandry in a yet Itrongcr light. 



NEW HUSEANDRT. 



Total produce . . . 1349401b. 



To be deductedi^or the feed . . 14238 lb. 



Neat produce .... 1207021b. 



OLD HUSBANDRT. 



Total produce . . . 80000 lb. 



To be deducted for the feed . . 294841b. 



Neat produce . , . . 505161b. 



Confequentlv the balance in favour? o/^ n 



f \ u n, J • f 701861b. 



of the new hulbandry is \ ' 



" This may perhaps feem furprifing to many: but my calculation 

 may be the more fafely depended on, as I have favoured the old 

 hufbandry greatly in my eftimate of the crops in that way, and 

 have made no deduftion for the lofs by fifting, winnowing, &c. 

 which, even in the very beft years, is always confiderably greater 

 in the old hufbandry, than in the new. 



Year 1756. 



•♦ np H E fame farms continued to be fown with the drill- 

 •*' plough. I Ihall therefore repeat the fame calculation, to iliew 

 the conftant advantage of the new hufbandry, which is fo much the 

 more remarkable this year, as the corn in the common way yielded 

 but very bad crops. The fields in general produced but few iheavcs, 



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