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pays 90I. inftead of 60I. he paid before ; the addi- 

 tional 30I. being deducted from 60I. his fhare, 

 leaves only 30I. to maintain his family, and make 

 good the extra expences of the fecond fliare. He 

 xhas no refource to an advance of price in the pro- 

 duce of his farm like the former, to enable him to 

 pay his advanced rent, which may be eafily feen, 

 by comparing the average prices of corn for the 

 lafl 20 years, with thofe of the 20 years imme- 

 diately preceding, which I fear will be found to 

 afford him little afllftance. If, then, it was with 

 difficulty enough he made both ends meet before 

 his rent was advanced, how is it pollible he lhould 

 live now upon an income reduced one half, fay 

 from 60I. to 30I. or more probably from 40I. to 

 20. ? What is to be done then ? To convert a farm 

 that is properly arable, to a dairy-farm, is imprac- 

 ticable ; and were it not, mould it be generally prac- 

 tifed, it would entirely defeat its own purpofe. The 

 remedy, and the only remedy, feems to confift in a 

 reduction of the rents of fuch farms, and the farmers 

 adopting the modern improved culture, recom- 

 mended by the very intelligent Mr. Billingsley, 

 of <c judicioufly blending arable and fajlure" but 

 I think feldom cc in the proportion of three of the 

 latter to one of the former." If the farmer could get 

 two good crops of artificial grafies, to two or three of 



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