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are fufficient to till the fame land in the hoe- 

 ing hufbandry ; and in light land, which is 

 ploughed with two horfes, it is hoed with 

 one : and thus in general the hoeing hu 

 bandry is performed with about half the 

 ftrength, or half the number of the fame 

 horfes that are commonly employed to plough 

 the fame land ; which greatly reduces the price 

 of the hoeing tillage. 



In the common hufbandry, a ploughman, 

 driver, and four horfes, ufually plough an acre 

 of land a day ; but in the New Hufbandry 

 for wheat, a ploughman horfe-hoes four acres 

 a day with two horfes without a driver. 

 Sir Digby Legard ufually ploughed four acres 

 a day of his light land with one horfe. 



There is, befides, another faving in this re- 

 fpect ; a ploughman and driver is commonly- 

 employed with every plough team, of three or 

 more horfes, in the ufual way of ploughing land ; 

 but in the hoeing- huibandry a driver is not 

 neceflary : for in the New Hufbandry, wheat 

 is drilled upon ridges (being much better 

 than upon level ground, more conveniently 

 horfe-hoed, and keeping the wheat dry in the 

 winter) ; and cattle, horfes, or oxen, after a 

 very little ufe, are very tractable in hoeing, 

 being guided by the ridges to go flraight with- 

 out a driver. The faving in this refpecl, and 

 only half the number of cattle employed in 

 hoeing as in common ploughing, renders the 

 tillage a great deal cheaper in the New, than 

 in the Old Hufbandry. 



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