NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 



(landing the difficulty he fometimes found 

 in catching the critical feafons for hoeing : 

 but this difficulty was partly owing, as he in- 

 timates, to the circumftance of his men and 

 horfes being then otherwife employed : for he 

 received his tythes in kind, and employed his 

 own men and horfes to bring it home. A 

 fairer trial of the crops than in his cafe can- 

 not be expe&ed; for he had then praclifed 

 the New Hufbandry for wheat about twenty- 

 four or twenty -fiveyears, and continued it to the 

 time of his death, for about four or five years 

 more* in all about thirty years ; and this upon 

 feveral fields. 



The wheat crops in both methods of Hnf- 

 bandy being nearly equal, there would be no 

 great advantage in the New Hufbandry, if 

 they were alfo equal in other refpects, but this 

 is far from being the cafe : for, not to infift 

 at prefent upon other circumtlances, the fav- 

 ing of dung is alone a matter of great confe- 

 quence. From three to five pounds an acre 

 laved in a crop of wheat, is an expence that 

 cannot be balanced by any fuperiority that 

 even the greateft favourers of the Common 

 Huibandry have alledged: but fome may fay, 

 what is to be done with the dung and manure, 

 that farmers take fo much care to obtain, and 

 that they are by all adviled to provide? The 

 anfwer to this is obvious ; wheat and other 

 corn require no manure, or very little, in the 

 New Hufbandry, but potatoes, carrots, cab- 

 bages, 



