First Year’s extraordinary Expence is, for plowing
and manuring the Land, the same as in Old Way 22 0 0
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
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The standing annual Charge on Ten Acres
is 13 15 10
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Therefore the Expence on Ten Acres in Twenty Years is 275 16 8
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Add the Extraordinaries of the First Year, and the
Sum is 297 16 8
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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
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Therefore, all things paid, there remains clear Profit
on Ten Acres in Twenty Years by the New Way 262 3 4
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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_.
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