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Vated barley and wheat by the New Hufbandry : 

 yet Mr. Tull, by an actual trial, had near 

 four quarters, or thirty-two bufhels (nine-gal- 

 lon meafure), of wheat per acre upon his befl 

 land ; and upon about eighty acres, he had 

 near twenty bnfhels of wheat per acre upon 

 an average, of his ordinary land, moft of it 

 inferior to Sir Digby's feven experiment acres. 

 Others have (ince had nearly as good crops of 

 wheat in the hoeing culture, as have been 

 obtained the fame years in the neighbourhood 

 jn the Old Hulbandry, where the land has 

 been of equal goodnefs, and the hoeing cul- 

 ture (kill fully performed, in the manner di- 

 rected by Mr. Tull, and according to his lateft 

 practice. 



The reafon that Sir Digby did not obtain 

 better crops of wheat in the New Hufbandry 

 was his giving his wheat but three horle- hoe- 

 ings, and one of them a very (hallow one, 

 inftead of four deep horfe-hoeings : for no no- 

 vice in this Hufbandry fhould beftow fewer 

 hoeings than Mr. Tull gave and directed, but 

 rather more, and as deep and near to the 

 plants as lie did, tor he was perfect mafler of 

 the New Hufbandry particularly in the culture 

 of wheat. The wheat plants, when* upon to- 

 lerable land, branch much when well horfe- 

 hoed, and for that reafon three pecks of feed 

 wheat is generally fufficient to drill : ueithcrMr. 

 Tull, nor any of the molt expert cultivators lrill 

 , even, if the feed is planted late ; but if 



planted 



