In the New Husbandry every Article is put at its full Value, and the Crop of each Year is Four Bushels short of the other; tho’, in several Years Experience, it has equalled, and generally exceeded, those of the Neighbourhood in the Old Way.

An Estimate of the Expence and Profit of Ten Acres of Land in Twenty Years.

I. In the Old Way.
First Year, for Wheat, costs 33l. 5s. viz.l.s.d.l.s.d.
First Plowing, at 6s. per Acre  3 0 0
Second and Third Ditto, at 8s. per Acre  4 0 0
Manure, 30s. per Acre 15 0 0
 22 0 0
Two Harrowings, and Sowing, at 2s. 6d. per Acre  1 5 0
Seed, three Bushels per Acre, at 4s. per Bush.  6 0 0
Weeding, at 2s. per Acre  1 0 0
Reaping, Binding, and Carrying, at 6s. per Acre  3 0 0
 11 5 0
 33 5 0
Second Year, for Barley, costs 11l. 6s. 8d. viz.
Once Plowing, at 6s. per Acre  3 0 0
Harrowing and Sowing, at 1s. 6d. per Acre,  015 0
Weeding, at 1s. per Acre  010 0
Seed, 4 Bushels per Acre, at 2s. per Bushel  4 0 0
Cutting, Raking, and Carrying, at 3s. 2d. per Acre  111 8
Grass-Seeds, at 3s. per Acre  110 0
 11 6 8
 4411 8
Third and Fourth Years, lying in Grass, cost nothing: So that the Expence of Ten Acresin Four Years comes to 44l. 11s. 8d. and in Twenty Years to22218 4
First Year’s Produce is half a Load of Wheat per Acre, at 7l. 35 0 0
Second Years Produce is Two Quarters of Barley per Acre, at 1l. 20 0 0
Third and Fourth Years Grass is valued at 1l. 10s. per Acre 15 0 0
So that the Produce of Ten Acres in Four Years is 70 0 0
And in Twenty Years it will be350 0 0
Deduct the Expence, and there remains clear Profit on Ten Acres in 20 Years by the Old Way127 1 8
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
Plowing once more, at 4s. per Acre  2 0 0
Seed, 9 Gallons per Acre, at 4s. per Bushel  2 5 0
Drilling, at 7d. per Acre  0 510
Hand-hoeing and Weeding, at 2s. 6d. per Acre  1 5 0
Horse-hoeing Six times, at 10s. per Acre  5 0 0
Reaping, Binding, and Carrying, at 6s. per Acre  3 0 0
The standing annual Charge on Ten Acres is 131510
Therefore the Expence on Ten Acres in Twenty Years is27516 8
Add the Extraordinaries of the First Year, and the Sum is29716 8
The yearly Produce is at least Two Quarters of Wheat per Acre, at 1l.8s. per Quarter; which, on Ten Acres in Twenty Years, amounts to560 0 0
Therefore, all things paid, there remains clear Profit on Ten Acres in Twenty Years by the New Way262 3 4

So that the Profit on Ten Acres of Land in Twenty Years, in the New Way, exceeds that in the Old by 135l. 1s. 8d. 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.

CHAP. I.
Of Roots and Leaves.

Since the most immediate Use of Agriculture, in feeding Plants, relates to their Roots, they ought to be treated of in the first Place.