7^ THE PRACTICE OF THE 



" three pecks of wheat on a ftatute acre, and 

 " receive from two to four quarters return, 

 " The farmers in the old way ufually plant 

 *' about ten or twelve pecks on an acre, and 

 " receive in return no more than I do, com- 

 " munibus annls" 



Another and very ingenious pra&ifer of this 

 hufbandry, William Craik, Efq. near Dum- 

 fries in Scotland, has pra&ifed the new huf- 

 bandry many years, and thus defcribes his 

 land: " My foil is ftiff and very moift; that 

 is, in the bottom below the ftaple, is a hard 

 and almoft impenetrable till, impervious to 

 water, which of confequence keeps the top 

 poachy, and therefore am obliged to drain 

 " every field with covered drains filled with 

 *' ftone. Add to this, that our climate is ex- 

 " tremely watery, fo that both foil and climate 

 " are again ft me, efpecially in the New Huf- 

 " bandry. 



" About feven years ago, I began to drill 

 " wheat in double rows, on ridges five feet 

 " two inches broad ; but have now reduced 

 * 4 them to four feet ten inches on the laft- 

 <c taken-in fields ; which fize I find anfwers 

 *' every purpofe beft for double rows of 

 " wheat; and fingle rows for turnips and po- 

 4< tatoes. I continue the double rows of 

 " wheat ; and drill a little mort of a Win- 

 " chefter bumel to the Scots flatute acre 

 * [one and a quarter Englifti]. My return 

 *' upon the average is about twenty-five 



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