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planted early in the feafon, and upon good 

 land, about two or between two and three 

 pecks is found enough. If more is drilled, 

 the wheat being too thick is apt to lodge ; 

 and hence likevvife appears a defect in Sir 

 Digby r s method of hoeing ; for he drilled a 

 bufhel of wheat upon an acre, which was 

 certainly too much upon fuch good land, if 

 the culture had been performed in the beft 

 manner : for then his wheat would have been 

 apt to lodge. 



What has been faid with regard to 'Sir 

 Digby's culture of wheat, is not by any means 

 intended to depreciate that gentleman's prac- 

 tice of agriculture, who was an excellent huf- 

 Landman ; but to guard the farmer from fall- 

 ing into an error which he might be led into 

 from a miflake of that eminent cultivator. 

 And if, as he has fhewn, twelve bumels an 

 acre is more profitable than the Old Hui- 

 bandry, how much greater muft the farmer's 

 profit be, who can raifefrom (ixteen to twenty 

 bumels an acre, from ordinary land, without 

 manure, and at the expence of only fifteen 

 {hillings an acre, for the culture beftowed upon 

 it in the New Husbandry? And that, upon 

 good wheat land, he may, in that Huibandry, 

 raife from twenty to thirty bumels and up- 

 wards per acre, without the expence of ma- 

 nure, and with very little more expence of 

 culture than in ordinary land ? 



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