In order to make a Comparison between the Hoeing-Husbandry, and the old Way, there are Four Things, whereof the Differences ought to be very well considered. I. _The Expence_ } II. _The Goodness_ } of a Crop. III. _The Certainty_ } IV. _The Condition in which the Land is left after a Crop._ The Profit or Loss arising from Land, is not to be computed, only from the Value of the Crop it produces; but from its Value, after all Expences of Seed, Tillage, _&c._ are deducted. Thus, when an Acre brings a Crop worth _Four Pounds_, and the Expences thereof amount to _Five Pounds_, the Owner’s Loss is _One Pound_; and when an Acre brings a Crop which yields _Thirty Shillings_, and the Expence amounts to no more than _Ten Shillings_, the Owner receives _One Pound_, clear Profit, from this Acre’s very small Crop, as the other loses _One Pound_ by his greater Crop. _The usual Expences of an Acre of Wheat, sown in the_ old Husbandry, _in the Country where I live, is, in some Places, for Two Bushels and an half of Seed; in other Places Four Bushels and an half; the least of these Quantities at_ Three Shillings per _Bushel, being the present Price, is_ Seven Shillings _and_ Six-pence. _For Three Plowings, Harrowing, and Sowing_, Sixteen Shillings; _but if plow’d Four times, which is better_, One Pound. _For Thirty Load of Dung, to a Statute Acre, is_ Two Pounds Five Shillings. _For Carriage of the Dung, according to the Distance, from_ Two Shillings _to_ Six-pence _the Load_, One Shilling _being the Price most common, is_ One Pound Ten Shillings. _The Price for Weeding is very uncertain; it has sometimes cost_ Twelve Shillings, _sometimes_ Two Shillings per _Acre_. _l._ _s._ _d._ _In Seed and Tillage, nothing can be abated of_ 01 03 06 _For the Weeding, one Year with another, is more than_ 00 02 00 _For the Rent of the Year’s Fallow_ 00 10 00 _For the Dung; ’tis in some Places a little cheaper, neither do they always lay on quite so much; therefore abating_ 15_s._ _in that Article, we may well set Dung and Carriage at_ 02 10 00 _Reaping commonly_ 5_s._ _sometimes less_ 00 04 06 ------------ _Total_ 04 10 00