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acre; on oats, worth i^s. a quarter, however, the profit was 

 2IS. ; on beans, 26s. 6d., these being that year exceptionally 

 good and worth 20s. a quarter.^ Ellis objected to the new: 

 mode of drilling wheat because, he said, the rows are more 

 exposed to the violence of the winds, rains, &c., by growing 

 apart, than if close together, when the stalks support each 

 other.'^ This estimate may be compared to that of Tull for 

 the ' old way ' of sowing wheat, ^ and to the following estimate 

 of fifty years later in Surrey, when wheat was a much better 

 price : — 



Dr. ;C s. d. 



Rent, tithe, taxes loo 



Team, &c 100 



2 bushels of seed 100 



Carting and spreading manure and water furrowing 2 6 



Brining 6 



Weeding 16 



Reaping and carrying 9 o 



Threshing and cleaning 76 



Binding straw . 16 



Cr. 



20 bushels at 5^ 500 



1^ loads of straw 126 



^ 6 2 6 



The profit was thus £2 \os. od. an acre, and for barley it was 

 ;^3 3 J. 6</., for oats £\ 19^. \od., for beans £1 13^. o^.^ 



This crop of wheat was not very good, as the average in 

 that district was from 20 to 25 bushels per acre, and Young 

 before this saw crops of 30 bushels per acre growing. The 



^ Ellis, Chiltern and Vale Farming, p. 209. Nothing is charged for 

 tithe and taxes. 

 "^ Ibid. p. 352. 



^ See above, p. 177, also p. 199 for Young's estimate in 1770. 

 * Nothing is charged for the manure which was carted and spread. 

 ^ John Trusler, Practical Husbandry, p. 28. 



