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fitable as wheat fo cultivated, alfo that he 

 had fuppofed the fourth crop in the old way 

 to be wheat; whereas, fays he, " it is much 

 " more common hereabouts, where the land is 

 " not perfectly adapted to the culture of wheat, 

 44 for the farmer to fow oats, or fome other 

 * fpring crop, after the clover ; and thus is 

 44 the profit reduced," of the common Huf- 

 bandry in that neigbourhood. But he proceeds 

 to compare his barley crops in the New Huf- 

 bandry with an efrimate in the foreign eflays 

 on hufbandry, p. 322. where M. De L'Harpe 

 eftimates the clear profit of one acre in Swif- 

 ferland at one pound feventeen millings ; this 

 is from crops of fainfoin and clover, with in- 

 termediate crops of corn ; which, Sir Digby 

 fays, is certainly the higheft calculation of any 

 he ever met with ; yet even that is not fo 

 profitable as Sir Digby's barley crops in the 

 New Hufbandry, and would be (till more in- 

 ferior to his wheat crops cultivated in that 

 manner. It is likewife to be obferved that this 

 calculation of M. De L'Harpe is upon a fup- 

 pofition that only half the land is under corn, 

 and the other half is every year clover and 

 iainfoin, which is a large proportion of the land 

 in cultivated grafles,beiides meadow andpaflure. 

 Sir Digby was fo far from being partial in fa- 

 vour of the New Hufbandy, that, as he writes 

 in his firft letter to the London Society, ' 4 I 

 44 am the more inclined to communicate to you 

 44 thefe experiments of laft year, becaufe I think 

 i the 



