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fowed with barley, and grafs-feeds fuited to the foil; 

 there cannot be a doubt, but that the produce the 

 three years fucceeding the crop of barley, would be 

 much more confiderable than it would have been in 

 the fix years, had it continued the whole time in its 

 natural ftate. So that the net produce of the three 

 crops of corn would be fo -much clear gain to the 

 occupiers, and proportionally beneficial to the public. 



Upon the whole, I think, it may be fairly con- 

 cluded, that for the lofs of every ton of herbage 

 that has been fuftained by means of the plough, 

 twenty, at leaft, have been gained by the well- 

 timed ufe of it. Moft, almoft the whole, of the 

 improvements made in hufbandry in the courfe of 

 the prefent century,- have been by the prudent ufe 

 of the plough. Turnips, clover, all the artificial 

 grafles, efculent roots, herbs, and plants, fo far as 

 refpecls field culture and the feeding and fattening 

 of cattle of every kind, have been obtained by its 

 ufe folely, as none of them can be cultivated exten- 

 fively without it. Therefore, true as it is, that 

 butter and cheefe, and fome other articles, have 

 advanced almoft double their price in the laft thirty 

 and forty years; and true as it may be, that graziers 

 and dairymen pay their rent more punctually than 

 little corn-farmers, or the occupiers of fmall arable 



farms; 



