Plowing once more, at 4_s._ _per_ Acre 2 0 0 Seed, 9 Gallons _per_ Acre, at 4_s._ _per_ Bushel 2 5 0 Drilling, at 7_d._ _per_ Acre 0 5 10 Hand-hoeing and Weeding, at 2_s._ 6_d._ _per_ Acre 1 5 0 Horse-hoeing Six times, at 10_s._ _per_ Acre 5 0 0 Reaping, Binding, and Carrying, at 6_s._ _per_ Acre 3 0 0 ------------ The standing annual Charge on Ten Acres is 13 15 10 ------------ Therefore the Expence on Ten Acres in Twenty Years is 275 16 8 ------------- Add the Extraordinaries of the First Year, and the Sum is 297 16 8 ------------- The yearly Produce is at least Two Quarters of Wheat _per_ Acre, at 1_l._ 8_s._ _per_ Quarter; which, on Ten Acres in Twenty Years, amounts to 560 0 0 ------------- Therefore, all things paid, there remains clear Profit on Ten Acres in Twenty Years by the New Way 262 3 4 ------------- So that the Profit on Ten Acres of Land in Twenty Years, in the New Way, exceeds that in the Old by 135_l._ 1_s._ 8_d._ and consequently is considerably more than double thereof: an ample Encouragement to practise a Scheme, whereby so great Advantage will arise from so small a Quantity of Land, in the Compass of a Twenty-one Years Lease; One Year being allowed, both in the Old and New Way, for preparing the Ground. It ought withal to be observed, that Mr. _Tull_’s Husbandry requires no Manure at all, tho’ we have here, to prevent Objections, allowed the Charge thereof for the first Year; and moreover, that tho’ the Crop of Wheat from the _Drill-plough_ is here put only at Two Quarters on an Acre, yet Mr. _Tull_ himself, by actual Experiment and Measure, found the Produce of his drilled Wheat-crop amounted to almost Four Quarters on an Acre: And, as he has delivered this Fact upon his own Knowlege, so there is no Reason to doubt of his Veracity, which has never yet been called in question. But that we might not be supposed to have any Prejudice in favour of his Scheme, we have chosen to take the Calculations of others rather than his, having no other View in what we have said, than to promote the Cause of Truth, and the public Welfare. The Wheat and Turnep Drill-Boxes, or the Drill-Plough complete, mentioned in this Treatise, may be had at Mr. _Mulford_’s in _Cursitor-street, Chancery-lane, London_. [Illustration] CHAP. I. _Of_ ROOTS _and_ LEAVES.