THE PRACTICE OF THE 



After I have related the two laft years ex- 

 " periments on barley, I (hall give a compara- 

 " tive view, of the expences and profits attend- 

 " ing the cultivation of the land, in the old and 

 new way ; and I (hall calculate the profit in 

 < the old way, not according to the management 

 " in uie in the time of our anceftors, but accord- 

 " ing to the beft modern improvements, taking 

 " the account from fome celebrated modern 

 * practitioners, as related by themfelves. 



' A comparifon of this fort is not fo properly 

 " made betwixt the Old and New Hufbandry, 

 ' as betwixt the modern improvements adopt- 

 " ed by the common farmer, and the benefit 

 < peculiarly arifing from the drill and horfe-hoe- 

 " ing fyftem. That the latter is founded on juft 

 " principles, I am convinced ; and that the 

 6 practice of it (if any credit be due to the ac- 

 " tual experiments of its profeflbrs) ought to be 

 t( efteemed one of the moft considerable im- 

 " provments in agriculture. 



On the 26th of April 1764, two acres and 

 " a half were drilled with barley on ridges 

 " four feet and a half broad, viz. a double row 

 " ten inches diftant on the top of every ridge, 

 <c the intervals for horfe-hoeing three feet eight 

 'inches broad; and took two bufhels two 

 *' pecks of feed. One acre adjoining, and of 

 " equal goodnefs, was on the lame clay drilled 

 " with barley, in equally difiant rowb, ne foot 

 " afunder, and took two bufhels of iced. One 

 " other contiguous acre was, at the lame time,, 



