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improved, fo well attained to, that the profit 

 was almoft doubled in four years; and there- 

 fore the crops of the firfr. four years, before 

 the method was well underftood and pactifed, 

 fhould not be included in a comparative example 

 of thefe two methods of Hulbandry, where one 

 was fo imperfectly pradlifed, and the other 

 performed in the beft manner ; and an impartial 

 comparifon of both, where both are well per- 

 formed, is ftill more in favour of the New 

 Hufbandry, than appears in the above ftate of 

 them. 



There is likewife another circumftance, 



greatly in favour of the New Hufbandry, ari- 



iing from another error in the practice of 



this gentleman ; for Mr. Tull, the author of 



this Huibandry, in his firft practice of it, gave 



his wheat fix horfe-hoeings, beiides once 



plowing the land, to form it into ridges before 



the leed was drilled ; and he recommends fix 



horfe-hoeings as neceifary : this was when he 



drilled wheat in two, three, or four rows, upon 



fix-reet ridges ; but upon further experience he 



found that narrower ridges, viz. thofe of four 



feet eight or nine inches broad, and only two 



rows of wheat upon each ridge ten inches af- 



fuuder, was better than the fix-feet ridges with 



more than two rows ; and alfo, that four 



horle-hoeings of thefe narrower ridges, and 



deeper hand- hoeing between the double ten- 



inch rows, produced him as good or better 



crops, and at a lefs expence, than the fix -feet 



ridges; 



