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every fort of cattle to be kept, and an equal quan- 

 tity of every fort of corn to be raifed, on half the 

 land, as was done before the inclofure on the whole; 

 whether it was then, for the former inftance, open 

 grazing common, or for the latter, open arable field. 

 How population can be injured, or rather, how it 

 fhould not thus be promoted, may be diftinguifhed 

 by the jaundiced eye of fome fpeculative politician/ 

 but is not at all perceivable by any one of common 

 fenfe and experience, who can laugh at theory, (and 

 happily he has, to confole him in his want of know- 

 ledge, plentiful food for laughter) when he finds it 

 totally irreconcileable with reality. 



I take the liberty of confirming my obfervations 

 in your 38th Article, on the Cow-Grafs Ley [2rf- 

 folium Pratpife.') I have the fineft plant of full- 

 eared wheat in this neighbourhood; my thick-fown 

 rye-grafs was fed (even in this fpring) in the middle 

 of April, a benefit which I endeavour to infure, by 

 always affording that field under the corn, of which 

 it is annually fo thickly fown, a coat of manure 

 ibon after the corn is harvefted. My acre of car- 

 rots, which in the fame article I mentioned as be- 

 ing from laft year's drought, together with my not 

 affording them, though fown on a wheat ftubble, 

 (fq the trial was fufficiently indelicate) but one 



ploughing, 



