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Pounds. As fuppofe it be of Wheat, at Two Shil- 

 lings and Six-pence a Bufhel, there is neither Gain 

 nor Lofs in the one nor the other Acre ? though the 

 former yield but One Quarter, and the other Fivej 

 but if the drill'd Acre yield Two Quarters, and the 

 fow'd Acre Four Quarters at the fame Price, the 

 drill'd brings the Farmer One Pound clear Profit,. and 

 the fown, by its Four Quarters, brings the other One 

 Pound Lofs. Likewife fuppofe the drilling Farmer 

 to have his Five Pounds laid out on Five Acres of 

 Wheat, and the other to have his Five Pounds laid 

 put on One dung'd Acre ; then let the Wheat they 

 produce be at what Price it will, if the Five Acres, 

 have an equal Crop to the one Acre, the Gain or 

 Lofs muft be equal : But when Wheat is cheap, as 

 we fay it is when fold at Two and Six-pence a Bufhel, 

 then if the Farmer, who follows the old Method, has 

 Five Quarters on his Acre, he mud fell it all to pay- 

 his Rent and Expence ; but the other having Five 

 Quarters on each of his Five Acres, the Crop of One 

 of them will pay the Rent and Expence of all his 

 Five Acres (a) 9 and he may keep the remaining 

 Twenty Quarters, till he can fell them at Five Shil- 

 lings a Bufliel, which amounts to Forty Pounds, 

 wherewith he may be able to buy Four of his Five 

 Acres at Twenty Years Purchafe, out of One Year's, 

 Crop, whilft the Farmer whopurfues the old Method, 

 muft be content to have only his Labour for his 

 Travel ; or if he pretends to keep his Wheat till he 

 fells it at Five Shillings a Bufhel, he commonly runs 

 in Debt to his Neighbours, and in Arrear of his Rent; 

 and if the Markets do not rife in time, or if his Crops 



(a) Or fuppofe a drill'd Acre to produce no more than One 

 Third of the fow'd Acre's Crop, vvhofe Expence is Five times as 

 sicch as of the drill'd, 'tis much more profitable, becaufe a Third 

 ©f Five Founds is One Pound Thirteen and Four-pence ; and a 

 Fifth of the Rent and Expence being only One Pound, fuch 

 drill'd Acre pays the Owner Thirteen and Four- pence more Profit, 

 Khan the other which brines a Crop treble to the drill'd. 



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