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profit of twelve bufhels per acre, or two hun- 

 dred and forty bufhels upon the twenty acres, 

 at five (hillings per bumel, or 60 1. pound 

 profit upon the twenty acres, by the Drill 

 Huibandry ; and if every article was ftated at 

 the full extent, the profit on the Drill would 

 be double to that of the Alternate Hufbandry. 

 The Alternate Hulbandry, as here ftated, 

 is, without doubt, a very cheap method of 

 culture, and is founded on a practice fomewhat 

 fimilar to that mentioned by Mr. Tull, in his 

 chapter of tillage, p. 21. "It is of late," 

 fays he, " fully proved, by the experience of 

 ** many farmers, that two or three additional 

 " ploughings will fupply the place of dung, 

 << even in the Old Hufbandry, if they be 

 " performed at proper feafons ; and the hiring 

 " price of three ploughings, after land has 

 " been thrice ploughed before, is but twelve 

 " (hillings ; whereas a dunging will coft three 

 pounds. This was accidentally difcovered 

 in my neighbourhood by the practice of a 

 poor farmer, who, when he had prepared 

 " his land for barley, and could not- procure 

 " feed to low it, ploughed it on till wheat feed- 

 < time, and (by means of fuch additional 

 u ploughing) without dung had fo good a 

 " crop of wheat, that it was judged to be 

 " worth more than the inheritance of the land 

 " it grew on." 



This paflage is quoted by Mr. Maxwell, 

 jn his Treatile of the Tranfuftions of the 



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