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THE PRACTICE OF THE 



NEW METHOD. 



Three quarters fix bufhels and"| 

 " two pecks of barley, on an I 

 " acre, at 18 s. per quarter, j 

 "is worth 



Deduct for expences, viz. two 

 " ploughing*, 8s. three horfe- 

 *' hoeings, 3 s. hand -hoeing, 

 " 2 s. 6d. feed, 2 s. I d. f, 

 " rent 155. 



1. s. df 



71 



i 10 71 



" Remains clear profit in onei 



} i 18 

 year J 



Confequently the clear profit 1 



" on one acre in four years, > 7 12 



" is 



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" It appears frorn the above eftimares, that 

 " the profit is confi -lerably greater in the drill, 

 " than in the OH Husbandry ; yet I have' 

 " luppoied the fourth crop in the old way to 

 < be wheat. Whereas it is much more com- 

 " mon hereabouts, where the land is not 

 * c perfe<fHy ada ted to the culture of wheat, 

 for the farmer to fow oars, or lome other 

 faring crop, afrer the clover; and thus is 

 the profic reduced. But I proceed to the 

 " calculation of others. 



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