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' I have now praclifed the drill culture 

 " about eight years, and, from the mod care- 

 " ful obfervations I have been able to make, 

 " I judge, that twelve bufhels of wheat on 

 " an acre is about the medium quantity to be 

 64 obtained, from moderately fertile ground, 

 during at leaft fix fucceffive years, without 

 * dung. I reckon eight bufliels to the quarter, 

 " and nine gallons to the buihel. Now if this 

 " be a true pofition, I think it will not be 

 " difficult to prove, that the drill culture is 

 c more beneficial to the farmer than any 

 other method hitherto invented." 



If SirDigby's twelve bufhelsof wheat per acre 

 were more profitable than the Old Hufbandry, 

 how much greater was Mr. Tull's, who had 

 nearly twenty bumels (alfo nine-gallon mea- 

 fure) upon the acre in double rows alfb, from, 

 about ninety acres of his \vorft land; and his land 

 poorer and much (hallower than Sir Digby's? 

 This fhews plainly, that there was a defect in Sir 

 Digby's tillage, and that his land, inftead 

 of three, fhould have had at leaft four horfe- 

 hoeings, deep hoeings from the rows of wheat, 

 and clofe to them. And Mr. Craik fays, 

 Were it not for the parts that fail in my 

 * fields, my horfe-hoed crops would exceed 

 * four quarters;" that is, his crops would ex- 

 ceed four quarters Winchefter meafure, upon 

 the Scotch acre ; which is twenty-five and a 

 half Winchefter bufhels, upon an Engli(h fta- 

 tute acre.] 



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