20 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



he had good crops, fome years four or five 

 quarters upon an acre, from three pecks of 

 feed, which was the greateft quantity he 

 ufually drilled upon an acre. The neigh- 

 bouring farmers were {urprized, to fee fuch 

 crops raifed from fo fmall a quantity of feed, 

 and from only about a fifth or fixth part of the 

 land fowed ; and ftill more fo, that the fame 

 land produced fuch crops every year, without 

 fallow, reft, or manure : but as they did not 

 underftand the principles of this culture, few 

 of them attempted it: they are in general 

 averfe to innovations in Hufbandry, and were 

 fo particularly in this cafe, as it was fo different 

 from the Hufbandry they had been accuf- 

 tomed to. 



Mr. Tull however proceeded in this Huf- 

 bandry, and extended his wheat crops gra- 

 dually from a part of a field, to one hundred 

 and twenty acres. 



In the mean time, feveral noblemen and 

 gentlemen came, and viewed thefe wheat 

 crops ; and being convinced, that extending 

 this Hufbandry would be very advantageous 

 to the public, they periuaded Mr. Tull to 

 publifh his method of culture ; which he at 

 laft complied with, and printed it, firft a Spe- 

 cimen in 1/31, and an EfTay on the Horfe- 

 hoeing Hufbandry in the year 1733. He 

 continued to cultivate wheat, in this manner, 

 with fuccefs, for thirteen years ; and in that 

 time made feveral improvements in his me- 

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