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periments in the Drill Cu ] tnre of wheat in 

 Cumberland, compared with the common 

 coude of crops in that country, viz. the frit 

 year turnips, with the full quantity of ma- 

 nure; the flcond year fallnv; and the third 

 year a crop of wheat, without manure. '1 his 

 courfe continued every three years. In the 

 Drill Culture, the fuft year turnips, with half 

 the quantity of manure, as the broad-^aft; 

 the iecond year, barlev ; and the third year, 

 wheat. The barley and wheat repeated the 

 fourth and fifth years, and then the manuring 

 and turnips to take place again. It does not 

 appear, that any manure was ufed for the 

 crops of corn. The land, on which the expe- 

 riments were made, was a heavy, moift foil, 

 with a clavey bottom, and deemed too ftifF 

 for barley. It was tilled out of hay, and had 

 borne a crop of oats. The rent eight (hil- 

 lings per acre. 



The courfe of crops here mentioned is an 

 uncommon one, and by no means the befr. 

 Mr. Lowther drilled three rows of wheat on 

 each ridge, which were too many, and his 

 ridges were but five feet and a half broad, 

 which for three rows mould have been fix 

 feet ; u on the whole, he reckons the drilled 

 crops were more profitable than the broad-cad 

 in that country, by eight millings two pence 

 and eight- fifteenths per acre; but thele ex- 

 periments were not lb fatisfa&ory by much 

 as thofe made by Sir Digby Legard : and 



O therefore 



