36 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



Bufhelt. Peeks. 



The broad-caft half-acre, not hoed, produced, 4 i 

 The half-acre, ditto, hand-hoed, produced 8 i 

 The half-acre, drilled and horfe-hoed, produced 13 2 



We have here an inftance, that the New 

 Hufbandry is not generally known in Eng- 

 land, even by curious farmers. Mr. Tull 

 drilled fix feet ridges with three rows of 

 wheat ; but upon narrower ridges he drilled 

 but two rows, at ten inches diftance. It was 

 therefroe very improper to drill three rows 

 upon five ridges, of fuch large plants as beans. 

 The two partitions between the rows, of one 

 foot each, which was hand-hoed, took two 

 feet breadth of the ridge, in the deepeft part 

 pjtp of it; and only three feet, viz. a foot and an 

 half on each fide of the ridge, remained to 

 be horfe-hoed, being the (hallo weft part of the 

 ridge. The middle rows were not likely to 

 receive much benefit by horfe-hoeing fuch 

 fmall quantities of earth on the fhallow out- 

 fides of the ridges ; and had little more aflift- 

 ance than what it received from hand-hoeing, 

 which undoubtedly leflened the crop. To 

 have feen the full effect of horfe-hoeing, there 

 fhould not have been a middle row upon fuch 

 narrow ridges. When Mr. Tull fowed three 

 rows of wheat upon fix-feet ridges, the 

 middle rows were remarkably fliorter and 

 poorer than the outfide rows, though the par- 

 titions 



