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fbme have reckoned it fo high as four rents ; 

 which it may be in fome particular cafes and 

 fituations, though in general not fo high. 



This profit includes all that is made from 

 the crops of corn and grafs, cattle, dairy, hogs, 

 poultry, and every other produce of the farm ; 

 for, with regard to the crops of corn, and other 

 vegetables generally cultivated, they fall much 

 Ihort of thefe eftimates. 



Sir Digby Legard, being fully fatisfied of 

 the advantage of the New Hufbandry, from 

 experience, compares the fame with the com- 

 mon IJufbandry ; obferving, that a letter in the 

 3d volume of the Mufeum Rufticimi, p. 232, 

 figned Y, reckons the clear profit of land in 

 tillage, near Bury in Suffolk, at about 155. per 

 acre. He then gives the courfeof huibandry 

 frequently obferved by farmers in his neigh- 

 bourhood, where the fields are inclofed, and 

 let for fifteen (hillings an acre, tithe-free ; the 

 courfe for four years being, firft year turnips, 

 iecond barley, third clover, and fourth wheat. 

 The total produce in four years is i2/. 18 s. 

 and the total expences in four years is 8/. 6s. 6d. 

 and the clear profit of an acre in that time 

 4/. 3*. 6d> or near a guinea an acre clear 

 profit a year. Whereas the clear profit a year, 

 upon the acre cultivated by himfelf in the 

 New Huibandry, is i /. 1 8 s. od. ; where it is to 

 be obferved, that he reckons the profit of the 

 New Huibandry, from barley cultivated in that 

 method ; which he acknowledges is not fo pro- 



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