68 THE PRACTICE OF THE 



Mr. Tull proceeds to give fome account of 

 the reft of his horfe-hoed wheat, whereof the 

 products are not ftated by meafure, as of the 

 acre above-mentioned ; but, as he computed 

 them, his hoed wheat that year, amounting 

 to an hundred and fix acres, yielded nearly 

 two thoufand one hundred and fixteen bufhels, 

 or about twenty bufhels per acre : which 

 confidering the quality of the land, and cir- 

 cumftances of it when drilled, may be rec- 

 koned a good crop : for he relates, that being 

 advanced in years, and in an ill ftate of 

 health, he intended to have let his farm, and 

 had agreed with a tenant, and therefore omit- 

 ted to prepare a confiderable part of his land for 

 drilling with wheat : and the tenant difappoint- 

 ing him, he was obliged to plant it with fum- 

 mer-corn, which put him out of his courfe of 

 Hufbandry, and was an injury to the land. 



" It is true," fays he, " I was at great 

 " lofs by giving attention to that tenant ; but 

 " I was delirous of being out of all bufinefs, 

 c my infirmities increafing upon me." And 

 this to fuch a degree, that, as he takes notice 

 elfewhere, he was frequently confined within- 

 doors, and fometimes to his bed. And ano- 

 ther circumftance was, that his Huibandry 

 was managed altogether by day-fervants. 

 Thefe circumftances, together with the infe- 

 rior quality of his land, being confidered, are 

 much in favour of the New Hubandry, 

 which, under fuch unfavourable circumftances, 



could 



