The horse-hoeing husbandry: 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 / By I.T. [Jethro Tull].

Jethro Tull

Date:: 1751

Credit: The horse-hoeing husbandry: 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 / By I.T. [Jethro Tull]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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So that the Profit on Ten Acres of Land in Twenty Yea, in the New Way, exceeds that in the Old by 135/. 15. 8d. and confequently 4s confiderably more than double thereof: an ample Encouragement. to. practife a Scheme, whereby fo great Advantage will arife from fo fmall a Quantity of Land, in the Compafs of aiTwenty-one Years Leafe; One Year being allowed, both in the Old and New Way, ‘for preparing the Ground. erm It ought withal to be obferved, that Mr. Tut's Hufbandry requires no Manure at all, tho’ we have here, to. prevent Objections, allowed the Charge thereof for the firft Year; and moreover, _ that tho’ the Crop of Wheat from the Drill- plough is here’ put only at T'wo Quarters on an Acre, yet Mr. Zui] himéelf, by atual Experiment and Meafure, found the Produce of his drilled Wheat-crop amounted to almoft Four Quarters on an Acre: And, as he has delivered this Fact upon his own Knowlege, fo there is no Reafon to doubt of his Veracity, which has never yet been ecalled_in queftion. But that we might not be ‘fappofed to have any Prejudice in favour, of “his Scheme, we have chofen to take the Calcu- -Jations of others rather than his, having: no other View in what we have faid, than to promote the Caufe of Truth, and the public Welfare, - _ The Wheat and Turnep Drill-Boxes, or the-Drill-Plough com- ___ plete, mentioned in this Treatife, may. be had at Mr. Mudforq’s in Curfitor-firect, Chancery-lane, Londen. |

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