NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. I2J 



Though the Alternate Hu&andry is a cheap 

 method of culture, Mr. Melvill is much mif- 

 taken in fuppofing it to be much more pro- 

 fitable than the Drill-Hufbandry ; as will ap- 

 pear from a fair companion. Premifing, that 

 more than twice ploughing is neceflary in fal- 

 lowing, to keep down the weeds, which con* 

 tinue growing ievenor eight months, in which 

 time a fallow fhould be ploughed, at leaft, four 

 times ; and ploughing with oue horfe is quite 

 inefficient to plough the land to a proper 

 depth : but, to give this Hufbandry every ad- 

 vantage, we fhall charge no more to it for 

 thefe than he has ftated. Some manure he 

 acknowledges is neceflary in the Alternate 

 Huibandry, but not how much. A common 

 dreffing with dung, to be carried fbme dif- 

 tanct-, as in this cafe, cofts for the dung, car-? 

 riage to the land, and fpreading, from three 

 to five pounds an acre; and admitting it can 

 be done here at the lowed rate, three pounds 

 per acre, and alfo that a quarter drefling is 

 enough for this land, theexpence of manure, at 

 the loweft, will amount to fifteen (hillings an 

 acre. Let us fuppofe the field to be culti- 

 vated meafures twenty acres. In the Alter- 

 nate Hufbandry, half or ten acres is tallow, 

 and the other half or ten acres produces a crop 

 of wheat every year. The expence in the 

 Alternate Hu(bandry is, for rent of twenty 

 acres, at fuppofe only five (hillings an acre, 

 five pounds 3 twice ploughing the fallow, at 



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