Reaping this Wheat is not worth above half as much as the Reaping of a sown Crop of equal Value; because the drill’d standing upon about a Sixth Part of the Ground, a Reaper may cut almost as much of the Row at one Stroke, as he could at Six, if the same stood dispersed all over the Ground, as the sowed does; and because he who reaps sowed Wheat, must reap the Weeds along with the Wheat; but the drilled has no Weeds; and besides, there go a greater Quantity of Straw, and more Sheaves, to a Bushel of the sowed, than of the drilled[234]. And since some Hundred Acres of drilled Wheat have been reaped at _Two Shillings_ and _Six-pence_ _per_ Acre, I will count that to be the Price. [234] One Sheaf of the latter will yield more Wheat than Two of the former of equal Diameter. _The whole_ Expence _of an Acre of drilled Wheat_. _l._ _s._ _d._ For Seed 00 02 03 For Tillage 00 04 00 For Drilling 00 00 06 For Weeding 00 00 06 For Uncovering 00 00 02 For Brine and Lime 00 00 01 For Reaping 00 02 06 ---------- Total 00 10 00 ---------- The Expence of an Acre of sowed Wheat is 04 00 00 To which must be added, for the Year’s Rent of the Fallow 00 10 00 ---------- Total 04 10 00 If I have reckoned the Expence of the drilled at the lowest Price, to bring it to an even Sum; I have also abated in the other more than the whole Expence of the drilled amounts unto. And thus the Expence of a drilled Crop of Wheat is but the Ninth Part of the Expence of a Crop sown in the common Manner. ’Tis also some Advantage, that less Stock is required where no Store-sheep are used. II. _Of the different Goodness of a Crop._ The Goodness of a Crop consists in the Quality of it, as well as the Quantity; and Wheat being the most useful Grain, a Crop of this is better than a Crop of any other Corn, and the ho’d Wheat has larger Ears (and a fuller Body) than sow’d Wheat. We can have more of it, because the same Land will produce it every Year, and even Land, which, by the Old Husbandry, would not be made to bear Wheat at all: So that, in many Places, the New Husbandry can raise Ten Acres of Wheat for One that the Old can do: because where Land is poor, they sow but a Tenth Part of it with Wheat.