ewes' milk. The fleeces averaged 2 lb., and the
wool was so bad as not to be worth more than 3d. or 4d. per lb.[455]

Pigs could be made to pay well, as the following account testifies:

Food and produce of a sow in one year (1763), which produced seven
pigs in April and eleven in October:

DR. L s. d.

Grains 10 4
Cutting a litter 1 6
5 quarters peas 5 2 0
10 bushels barley 1 0 0
Expenses in selling[456] 11 6
10 bushels peas 1 6 3
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L8 11 7
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CR. L s. d.

A pig 2 3
A fat hog 1 9 0
Another, 110 lb. wt. 1 12 9
Another, 116 lb. wt. 2 0 0
Heads 5 3
3 fat hogs 6 7 0
1 fat hog 2 0 0
10 young pigs 4 16 6
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L18 12 9
8 11 7
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Profit L10 1 2
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We have seen that Young thought little of the 'new husbandry'; he does
not even give Tull the credit of inventing the drill: 'Mr. Tull
perhaps _again_ invented it. He practised it upon an extent of ground
far beyond that of any person preceding him: the spirit of drilling
died with Mr. Tull and was not revived till within a few years.'[457]
It was doubtful if 50 acres of corn were then annually drilled in
England. Lately drilling had been revived and there were keen disputes
as to the old and new methods of husbandry, the efficacy of the new
being far from decided. The cause of the slow adoption of drill
husbandry was the inferiority of the drills hitherto invented. They
were complex in construction, expensive, and hard to procure. It
seemed impossible to make a drill or drill plough as it was called,
for such it then was--a combination of drill, plough, and
harrow--capable of sowing at various depths and widths, and at the
same time light enough for ordinary use. All the drills hitherto made
were too light to stand the rough use of farm labourers: 'common
ploughs and harrows the fellows tumble about in so violent a manner
that if they were not strength itself they woul