NEW HUSBANDRY EXEMPLIFIED. 



and though the product of laft year was lefs 

 " than in former ones, it was well known, 

 that the wheat crop failed all over Eng- 

 " land ; as is evident by the prefent high 

 ' price of that grain. For I cannot allow, 

 that the dearneis of torn is owing to the 

 ' bounry, as iome pretend ; having ever con- 

 ** tidered that aft of parliament as the Magna 

 * Chartaof Engliflv agriculture, and tending 

 *' on the whole to make grain more plentiful 

 *' and cheap. 



BefiJes the general caufes of a fcanty 

 rop in -my field of experiments laft year, 

 * there were particular ones, occafioned by 

 *' my abfeuce in the fprirtg, and great part of 

 * l the lummer ; whereby the hand -hoeing, a 

 * very material operation, was neglected, and 

 <* the horfe-1aoeings not regularly nor duly per- 

 * 5 formed. 1 perceived, on my firft examin- 

 ing the ridges in June laft, that the parti- 

 " tions were full of weeds, and the intervals 

 *' hard and compact; but k was then too late 

 " to apply an ^ffe&tial remedy, though the 

 44 weeding ad horfe-hoeing were, even now, 

 *' of mamteft fervice. The bad condition of 

 " the beds made me -deter rhine not to fow 

 " wheat again for the next crop, but to give 

 ** the land a thorough ploughing in winter ; 

 ** and I prepared it to be ibwn in fpring. 

 *' The aforementioned field is valued ,at fifteen 

 44 (hillings an acre; 



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