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field at work, after the work in the Old 

 bandry is finifhed, has made many conclude, 

 \vho are unacquainted with the New Huf- 

 bandry, that the tillage is much more expen- 

 five in the New than in the Old ; and feveral 

 modern authors have fuppofed it fo, and others 

 have roundly afTerted it, though entirely con- 

 trary to facT: and experience, and though it 

 plainly appears that they neither had expe- 

 rience in this huibandry, nor underftood the 

 principles of it. 



But admitting that, in a courfe of crops in 

 the common hufbandry, the land is ploughed 

 twice only for each crop at an average ; and 

 that each fucceflive wheat-crop in the hoeing- 

 culture requires alfo twice ploughing, once 

 to form the new ridges, and four horfe-hoe- 

 ings afterwards, which are equal to another 

 ploughing; the whole tillage in the new way 

 does not exceed, in labour and expence, two 

 common level-ploughings of the land, which 

 is therefore nearly equal to the tillage ufually 

 given to land in the old way : and thus the 

 tillage may feem equal in both methods ; but 

 is really very different, becaufe the land in 

 the New Hulbandry, if properly cultivated, 

 is always in high tilth, kept loofe, light, and 

 open, by the repeated hoeings ; fo that half 

 the ftrength of cattle is fufficient to till fuch 

 land as the farmers ufe in common plough- 

 ing : for, if the land is ftrong, and ufually 

 ploughed with four horfes, two fuch horfes 



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