284 APPENDIX. 



fenriMe how highly beneficial the New Huf- 

 banJry is to thofe who practice it with Ikill 

 and perfeverance. 



The hteft accounts of the practice of the 

 New Huibandry, related in Mr. DoflieY me- 

 moirs of agriculture, are the experiments above- 

 mentioned, made by Sir Digby Legnrd and 

 Mr. Lowlher ; and he concludes, page 377, 

 " There are, fays he, however fuch accounts 

 " of experiments already made, which have 

 " been laid before the public, or the Society 

 " for the encouragment of Arts, &c. as gives 

 " the greateft room to believe, that through 

 " the increafe of produce in quantity or value, 

 " or the diminution of expence, the profit 

 " of tillage may, in a term of fevcral years 

 " taken together, be rendered a third greater 

 " or perhaps even doubled to the farmer, by 

 " the fubftitution of the drill culture in the 

 " place of the common or broad-call. This pre- 

 " ference appears from experiments alfo in 

 " fome degree to hold good of indifferent, as 

 *- well as rich foil j and of other kind of 

 44 cultivated plants as well as corn, and to 

 " have many other advantages.'* 



If fuch are the advantages from this Huf- 

 bandry when executed imperfectly, how much 

 greater will it be to the Farmer, who performs 

 it in the beft manner, and according to the 

 dire&ions of the Author of it? He had near 

 four quarters of wheat by mcafure, upon twen- 

 y five acres of his beft land ; and about twenty 



bufhels, 



