84 THE PRACTICE OP THE 



lity produces profitable crops of wheat, Mr. 

 Tull's twenty bufhels per acre ; Mr. Craik's 

 twenty-five bufhels per acre, at the expence of 

 only a guinea, for expences of feed, culture, 

 and carriage home ; and the author of Rural 

 Improvements has juftly obferved, that there 

 is a profit from only eight bufhels of wheat 

 per acre : fb that an hundred acres of wheat 

 in the hoeing Huibandry is really more pro- 

 fitable than a farm of five hundred acres in 

 the Common Huibandry. 



It will be unneceflary to take notice of all 

 the objections made to the New Huibandry, 

 by the author of the Complete Englim Far- 

 mer ; and may be fufficient to acquaint the 

 reader, that Mr. Tull began his hoeing culture 

 for wheat upon level ground at firft, drilling 

 two, three, or four rows, at feven or eight 

 inches diftance ; and, leaving a fpace of about 

 four feet, drilled two, three, or four rows 

 more as at firft ; the narrow diftances between 

 the rows, called Partitions, was hand-hoed, 

 and the wide or four-feet fpaces, called Inter- 

 vals, was horfe-hoed ; viz. was tilled with a 

 plough, while the crop was growing. But 

 finding upon trial, that drilling upon fix-feet 

 ridges, two, three, or four rows upon each, 

 the ridges were eafier horfe-hoed, and pro>- 

 duced better crops, he left off drilling wheat 

 upon level ground, and drilled only two or 

 three rows upon each ridge. The method of 

 drilling thee rows he continued for fome 



years, 



