NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 6l 



" but the falfe relation of facts, or fallacious 

 " arguments." 



About two years before Mr. Tull wrote 

 this, he was defined to take an exact account 

 of the product of a (ingle acre of hand-hoed 

 wheat, and of an acre in the middle of a field 

 of twenty -five acres of horie-hoed wheat, in 

 order to know the different quantities pro-" 

 duce by them. 



" The firft was in [a common field, and 

 u planted upon the level, with the fame drill 

 " that planted the other, whereby there was a 

 " fpace of ten inches between two rows, and 

 * a fpace of eighteen inches between thofe 

 " and the next row : fo that each row had 

 fourteen inches of furface for the roots 

 *' to ipread in. It was hand-hoed very well. 

 " The land hath not been dunged in any 

 ' manner iince the year 1719. This crop 

 " was reaped very low, and threfhed out im- 

 c mediately. It produced eleven bufhcls and 

 " a half: the meafure of the land being rifry- 

 " two perches, the product is at the rate of 

 " thirty-fix bufhels and fix gallons to an acre. 

 " It is fituate next the ditch of a meadow, 

 " and is all the land I have in the commori 

 " field. The lands adjoining to it, of the 

 '* fame goodnels, were judged by all gentlc- 

 " men and farmers who viewed them nor to 

 " have above half the wheat -on them, that 

 this had, perch for perch ; and vet there 

 was no difference in the inanagcmcur, except 



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