Horse-hoeing husbandry : $b or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.Tull, Jethro
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Horse-hoeing husbandry : $b or, an essay on the principles of vegetation and tillage. Designed to introduce a new method of culture; whereby the produce of land will be increased, and the usual expence lessened. Together with accurate descriptions and cuts of the instruments employed in it.
Tull, Jethro
Agriculture -- Early works to 1800; Plows; Tillage
Two Harrowings, and Sowing, at 2_s._
6_d._ _per_ Acre 1 5 0
Seed, three Bushels _per_ Acre, at
4_s._ _per_ Bush. 6 0 0
Weeding, at 2_s._ _per_ Acre 1 0 0
Reaping, Binding, and Carrying, at 3 0 0
6_s._ _per_ Acre
------------ 11 5 0
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33 5 0
Second Year, for Barley, costs 11_l._ 6_s._ 8_d._ _viz._
Once Plowing, at 6_s._ _per_ Acre 3 0 0
Harrowing and Sowing, at 1_s._ 6_d._
_per_ Acre, 0 15 0
Weeding, at 1_s._ _per_ Acre 0 10 0
Seed, 4 Bushels _per_ Acre, at 2_s._
_per_ Bushel 4 0 0
Cutting, Raking, and Carrying, at 3_s._
2_d._ _per_ Acre 1 11 8
Grass-Seeds, at 3_s._ _per_ Acre 1 10 0
------------ 11 6 8
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44 11 8
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Third and Fourth Years, lying in Grass, cost nothing:
So that the Expence of Ten Acres in Four Years comes
to 44_l._ 11_s._ 8_d._ and in Twenty Years to 222 18 4
First Year’s Produce is half a Load of
Wheat _per_ Acre, at 7_l._ 35 0 0
Second Years Produce is Two Quarters
of Barley _per_ Acre, at 1_l._ 20 0 0
Third and Fourth Years Grass is valued
at 1_l._ 10_s._ _per_ Acre 15 0 0
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So that the Produce of Ten Acres in
Four Years is 70 0 0
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And in Twenty Years it will be 350 0 0
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Deduct the Expence, and there remains clear Profit
on Ten Acres in 20 Years by the Old Way 127 1 8
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II. _In the New Way._
First Year’s extraordinary Expence is, for plowing
and manuring the Land, the same as in Old Way 22 0 0
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