NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. $J 



though a hoeing is only two furrows, and a 

 whole ploughing four or fix furrows; and 

 though only half the number of the fame 

 horfea is neceflary for hoeing as for ploughing 

 the fame land. 



This author recommends the Common 

 Hufbandry ; but, in eftimating the profits of 

 it, he fays, that a farmer who takes five hun- 

 dred acres of land, whereof two hundred 

 acres are to be always corn, mould be poffefled 

 of a fum to begin with of fifteen hundred 

 pounds; and p. 62, " that the beginner mufl 

 < not flatter himfelf, that lefs than fifteen 

 " hundred pounds will be fufficient." Yet 

 he tells him, p. 204, " that fifty pounds a 

 " year laid by in clear profit is nearly as 

 " much as a farmer can annually accomplim, 

 <e who rents two hundred pounds a year." 

 If this is all the profit he is to expert, there is 

 little encouragement for a farmer to lay out 

 his money in the Common Hufbandry: for 

 this is eight pence an acre clear profit, for all 

 his labour and hazard 3 and from his arable 

 land, meadows, and paftures ; alfo from his 

 fheep, cattle, dairy, hogs, &c. It is but 

 three and one-third per cent, for his money ; 

 which he might employ to much greater ad- 

 vantage in other bufinefs, and at common in- 

 tereft at four or five per cent. Very different 

 from this is the New Huibandry, which does 

 not require near fo large a capital, and, as we 

 have feen above, that land of moderate ferti- 



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