THE PRACTICE OF THE 



therefore it is not neceffary to relate them more 

 particularly. 



Mr. Doflie has likewife particularly related 

 the experiments made by Mr. Cox of Wall- 

 hampton, near Lymington in Hampfhire, in a 

 field of twenty-three acres, divided into fixteen 

 parts, and drilled on the level, fome parts 

 with red, and others with white wheat, the 

 rows one foot afunder, and hand-hoed ; fome 

 were manured with lime, and the other parts 

 not manured. The above parts produced con- 

 fiderably more than the common broad-caft 

 fown wheat in that country. The land of 

 this field was nearly of the fame quality, viz, 

 a mallow mould on a gravel. The quantity 

 of feed drilled was one bumel per acre. The 

 quantity ufually fown there broad-caft is from, 

 two to two bumels and a half per acre. And, 

 as Mr. Doflie obferves, that at the rate at 

 which wheat is now fold (in 1767), there is 

 a clear faving, in the drill method of fowing, 

 of near the rent of the land, viz. twelve (hil- 

 lings and fix-pence per acre. This is, reckon- 

 ing the produce of all the experiments at an 

 average, and after deducting for the hand- 

 hoeing, and all other expences ; and is a full 

 proof, that drilling on the level, in rows a 

 foot diftant, and hand-hoed, is more profit- 

 able than the common broad-caft fowing; but 

 drilling the wheat upon ridges, and horfe- 

 hoeing it in the proper manner, is ftill much 

 more profitable than level drilling and hand- 

 i hoeing, 



