I 4* THE PRACTICE Of THE 



* cellencc ftill remains annexed to the fyftem 

 of Tull." 



The culture here given is from Sir Digby's 

 laft letter to the Society, as he was then be- 

 come more expert in the New Hufbandry than 

 at firft ; an4 for this reafon, as he oblerves, 

 his drilled Crops the laft four years were near 

 double to what they were the fir ft four years ; 

 and hence it appears, that the impartial com- 

 parifon of the two -methods mould be when 

 both are well executed ; and that the firft four 

 years, " wherein numbei lefs faults were com- 

 mitted," ftvould not be included in the 

 comparifon, as the merits of the Old and 

 New Hufbandry are neither of them to be 

 determined by a few, or fmall trials, unfkil- 

 fully conduced, but by a continued courfe of 

 culture, managed with care, and in the beft 

 manner : for if the New Hufbandry was fb 

 much fuperior, * when numberlefs faults 

 " were committed," the advantage of it over 

 Old Hufbandry, when well performed, is 

 very ftriking, being near doubly profitable to 

 what Sir Digby has ftated it. 



The land is defcribed as being light, deep, 

 and dry ; yet not fo much as Mr. Tull*s was 

 in general, much of whofe land was light 

 and dry, but not deep : yet k appears, that 

 his crops of wheat were much greater than 

 Sir Digby's were, even in the laft years of 

 his practice. One reafon of this appears to 

 be, ^that the land here was twice ploughed, to 



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