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cxpence might then amount to i 1. 155. but 

 this is not fo much as is charged here by 

 near two pound per acre. What then are we 

 to think of this experiment, brought to deter- 

 mine the merit of the New Hufbandry; 

 where, inftead of about 1 1. 155. per acre, 

 which is the higheft expence it would really 

 coft, it is charged at 3 1. 14 s. 7 d. ? 



Another remarkable circumftance in this 

 experiment is, the decline of the drilled wheat 

 crops ; which the firft year was twenty-fix, 

 the fecond thirteen, and the third but nine 

 bufhels per acre. This, as will be fliewn 

 hereafter, is very different from the crops of 

 the cultivators, experienced in this hufbandry, 

 which are greater than the firft of thefe, and 

 do not decline as they did here ; but, on the 

 contrary, the laft crops at the end of twenty 

 years are as good, and frequently better, than 

 at firft : for this culture duly performed im- 

 proves the land without manure, though it 

 produces every year a good crop of wheat. 

 Probably thefe drilled wheat crops were ma- 

 naged no better than the bean crops above- 

 mentioned were; three rows upon five-feet 

 ridges, and horfe-hoed only four times : but 

 there fhould not be more than two rows of 

 wheat upon each ridge, with a partition of 

 about ten inches, and the ridges four feet 

 eight or nine inches. Experience has proved 

 four horfe-hoeings fufficient to obtain good 

 fucceflive crops from ordinary land thus laid 



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