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ridges, upon which the wheat is to be drilled, 

 are only equal in labour to two common leyel 

 ploughings ; which, confidering that the hoe- 

 ing of lands in tilth requires but two horfes, 

 or only half the itrength that is neceflary to 

 plough the fame land when out of tilth, is 

 undoubtedly a very cheap culture, and a me- 

 thod of obtaining good crops of wheat, at a 

 much lefs expence than the farmer can poffi- 

 bly obtain them in the Old Hufbandry : to 

 this is to be added the expence of dung, which 

 ilrong land particularly requires to ferment in 

 it, and help to keep the foil open in the Old 

 Hufbandry, but is not neceflary in the New. 



If it is laid, that greater crops are produced 

 in the Old Hufbandry than in the New, this 

 is admitted to be fo in fome years ; but in 

 others the weeds do great damage to the 

 broad-cad: wheat; in hot, dry feafons, much 

 dung is hurtful, and greatly fo in wet feafons, 

 making the wheat too luxuriant, to run too 

 much to ftraw, to lodge, and be blighted ; 

 this muft be acknowledged being too common 

 in the Old Hufbandry : and therefore, to make 

 a fair companion, we muft take the crops at 

 an average; and we have fcen, by the account 

 of two experienced cultivators, that the ave- 

 rage crops of wheat in the New Huibandry 

 were as good as the Old: this may be fairly 

 concluded from Mr. Craik's account of his 

 crops,- and Mr. Dean aflhtS expreffly, that 

 his were fo upon his {hong laud, notwith- 



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