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" more than four quarters four bufhels per 



" acre. But taking my barley crops at a me- 



" dium for the laft three years, the produce 



" has been four quarters on an acre, in my 



" bed fields, fown broad-caft; and taking the 



*' horfe-hoed crops at a medium for the beft 



' three years, the produce has been three quar- 



** ters fix bumels and three pecks. In the fdl- 



" lowing comparifon therefore I mall calcu- 



" late each year's crops, both in the old and 



* new way, on the above footing. 



( It is impoflible to be very exac~l in this 



" kind of calculations ; but I fincerely believe, 



'* that there is greater probability of reaping 



" four quarters on an acre in the horfe-hoeing 



" hulbandry, than five quarters in the com- 



" mon way, on fuch a foil as I have made 



' my experiments on. It has been ufual to 



" reckon, that the farmer ought to make three 



' rents of his land : one third of which goes 



' to his landlord, another to the expences of 



,< cultivation, and the remaining third to the 



maintenance of himlelf and family. But we 



' will allow that the art of husbandry is fo 



* much improved, that an intelligent farmer 



" may receive above a third clear profit. One 



<f cannot preciiely determine what the profit 



is, which varies probably in every county, 



' and depends Ib much on circumttances and 



' fituation. 1 (hall therefore fet down a courfe 

 *' of hufbandry frequently obferved by farmers 

 " in my neighbourhood, where the fields are 

 . N " inclofed, 



