Ch.XVII. Old and New Hufbandry. 261 



II. Of the different Goodnefs of a Crop. 



The Goodnefs of a Crop confifts in the Quality of 

 it, as well as the Quantity \ and Wheat being the moft 

 ufeful Grain, a Crop of this is better than a Crop of 

 any other Corn, and the ho'd Wheat has larger Ears 

 (and a fuller Body) than fow'd Wheat. We can have 

 more of it, becaufe the fame Land will produce it 

 every Year, and even Land, which, by the Old 

 Hufbandry, would not be made to bear Wheat at 

 all: So that, in many Places, the New Hufbandry 

 can raife Ten Acres of Wheat for One that the Old 

 can do : becaufe where Land is poor, they fow but a 

 Tenth Part of it with Wheat. 



We do not pretend, that we have always greater 

 Crops, or fo great asfome fown Crops are, efpecially 

 if thofe mention'd by Mr. Houghton be not miftaken. 



The greater! Produce I ever had from a fingle 

 Yard in Length of a double Row, was Eighteen 

 Ounces: The Partition of this being Six Inches, and 

 the Interval Thirty Inches, was, by Computation, 

 Ten Quarters (or Eighty Bufhelsj to an Acre. 



I had alio Twenty Ounces to a like Yard of a 

 Third fucceflive Crop of Wheat ; but this being a 

 treble Row, and the Partitions and Interval being 

 wider, and fuppofed to be in all Six Feet, was com- 

 puted to Six Quarters to an Acre. And if thefe Rows 

 had been better order'd than they were, and the 

 Earth richer, and more pulveriz'd, more Stalks 

 would have tillered out, and more Ears would have 

 attained their full Size, and have equall'd the beft, 

 which mud have made a much greater Crop than ei- 

 ther of thefe were. 



But to compare the different Profit, we may pro- 

 ceed thus : The Rent and Expence of a drill'd Acre 

 being One Pound, and of a fow'd Acre Five Pounds ; 

 One Quarter of Corn, produced by the drill'd, bears 

 an equal Proportion in Profit to the One Pound, as 

 Five Quarters, produced by the other, do to the Five 

 S 3 Pounds, 



