Rent, tithe, taxes 1 0 0 Team, &c. 1 0 0 2 bushels of seed 10 0 Carting and spreading manure and water furrowing 2 6 Brining 6 Weeding 1 6 Reaping and carrying 9 0 Threshing and cleaning 7 6 Binding straw 1 6 --------- L3 12 6[420] ========= CR. 20 bushels at 5s. 5 0 0 1-1/2 loads of straw 1 2 6 --------- L6 2 6 ========= The profit was thus L2 10s. 0d. an acre, and for barley it was L3 3s. 6d., for oats L1 19s. 10d., for beans L1 13s. 0d.[421] This crop of wheat was not very good, as the average in that district was from 20 to 25 bushels per acre, and Young before this saw crops of 30 bushels per acre growing. The over frequent use of fallows, which had so long marked agriculture, was in the early half of the eighteenth century beginning to be strongly disapproved of. Bradley advocated the continuous cultivation of the ground with different kinds of crops, 'for I find', he said, 'by experience that if such crops are sown as are full of fibrous roots, such roots greatly help to open the parts of grounds inclining to too much stiffness.'[422] FOOTNOTES: [367] _Six Centuries of Work and Wages_, p. 472. [368] See Baker, _Record of Seasons and Prices_, p. 185. [369] Eden, _State of the Poor_, iii p. cvii; Thorold Rogers, _Work and Wages_, p. 396. [370] In Herefordshire at this time it was 1-1/2d. per lb. [371] Hasbach, _op. cit._ p. 86. [372] Eden, _op. cit._ i. 286. [373] Ibid. i. 498. [374] Hasbach, _op. cit._ p. 71. [375] Smith, _Memoirs of Wool_, ii. 93. [376] John Lawrence, _New System of Agriculture_, p. 45. In 1712, a normal season, 48 acres of wheat at Southwick in Hants produced 16 bushels per acre, 45 acres of barley 12 bushels per acre, 30 acres of oats 24 bushels per acre; at the same place 240 sheep realized 8s. each, cows 65s., calves L1, horses L6, hay 25s. a ton (_Hampshire Notes and Queries_, iii. 120). [377] Worlidge, _Systema Agriculturae_, p. 42. [378] _Collections_, iv. 142. [379] Lawrence, _New System of Agriculture_, p. 109. [380] _Tour_ (ed. 1724), i. 87. [381] Ellis, _Chiltern and Vale Farming_, p. 353. [382] Bradley, _General Treatise_, i. 175. [383] Ellis, _Chiltern and Vale Farming_, p. 260. [384] J. Lawrence, _New System of Agriculture_, p. 112.