NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 57 



5 e not one foot of mine is wet enough, or rich 

 M enough to do) are become of greater value 

 " than formerly. 



" My farm was termed a barley faxin, not 

 " from the good crops of barley it produced, 

 " but becaule the land, being almofl all hilly, 

 " was thought too light for wheat. In a dry 

 " fummer, the barley crop failed for want of 

 " moifture, and of more pulverization, and 

 " was not worth half theexpence. 



" Land is feldom too duy for wheat; and 

 " this dry foil, in the hoeing culture, brings 

 very good crops of wheat, which is the 

 " reafon I have now no barley except what 

 *' is lovvn on the level ; as it always muft be 

 f for planting faint foin and clover amongft 

 " it; were it not for that purpole, I mould 

 ** plant no barley at all." 



Upon this unpromifmg foil for wheat, Mr. 

 Tull began his horfe-hoeing Hufbandry ; firft 

 upon one field, and afterwards upon the reft 

 of his land, ftill encrealing the quantity, till 

 at laft he had one hundred and twenty 

 acres, drilled with wheat, and horfe-hoed ; 

 and part of thefe was annually under wheat 

 crops n fucceliion tor thirteen years, with- 

 out reft, change of crops, fallow, dung, or any 

 kind of manure, during that time; and the 

 land notwithstanding was not impovcrifhed, 

 but improving. 



This he takes notice of in feveral places, 



particularly in the thirteenth year, p. 273, 



' i where 



