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particular circumftances might require, and as the 

 farmer might think fit and proper. On twenty 

 acres thus planted, I reckon, befides twenty milch- 

 cows, fix or eight young cattle, and pigs in pro- 

 portion, might be well kept on the offal. 



It may be a(ked, (hould this plan be generally 

 adopted by the farmer, for whofe ufe it is princi- 

 pally intended, if it would not be running out of 

 one extreme into another? If fo confiderable an in- 

 creafe of milk, butter, and cheefe, would not lower 

 the prices of thofe articles too much, and raife the 

 price of wheat in a greater proportion ? That it 

 would lower the prices of thefe articles is very cer- 

 tain, and it is a very defirable circumftance that it 

 fhould. At this time, and for fix weeks pad, butter 

 has been fold in this neighbourhood for nine-pence 

 a pound, and will moft probably be fold for ten- 

 pence very foon; whereas, I fhould hope, the ave- 

 rage price might, by the propofed improvement, 

 be reduced to feven-pence. 



There is little danger, however, of the price of 

 wheat being advanced by the appropriation of about 

 twelve acres of land annually to the cultivation of 

 the above articles} for the land would be fo much 

 improved by the extra tillage given to the foil in- 

 ;e^nded for thofe articles, and alfo during their 

 E 3 growth, 



