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Article III. 



An Enquiry concerning a Jure and certain Me* 

 thod of improving fmall Arable Farms. 



[By the fame, to the Secretary.] 

 Sir, 



TT is generally thought, and on very good grounds, 

 **• that fmall arable farms do not afford the occu- 

 pier fo good a maintenance as dairy farms of the 

 fame annual value. That the latter will do well 

 and fave money, while the former, with a vaft deal 

 more labour and trouble, is ftarving himfelf and 

 family. THis matter has been fully inveftigated 

 in a former paper, and the true reafon afllgnedj 

 but a fure and certain remedy, which would enable 

 the farmer to live and pay his rent punctually, is 

 greatly to be wilhed, and would be of univerfal 

 convenience. An attempt to efFed which is the 

 intended ufe of this paper. 



The advantage and propriety of applying land 

 to the growth of fuch articles to which nature has 

 moft fitly fuited it, has been fhewn at large, and 

 alfo that all land which is naturally and properly 

 arable, can by no means be converted into meadow, 

 or valuable pafture of any duration. Such as, from 

 a wild ftate of nature, overrun with furze, fern, 



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