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thoufand pounds richer than they were forty years 

 fince, which I ^attribute chiefly to the improve- 

 ments made on their lands. The pradlical method 

 of thefe improvements fliall be the fubjeA of an- 

 other letter. At prefent I have only to add, that 

 I am with much refped, 



Your obliged ijnd cordial friend, 



R. LOCKE.^, 



AjlTICLE XIII. 



On the Improvement of Meadow Land. 



[By the Same.] 



Burnhamy iGth Feb, 1789. 

 Dear Sir, 



TPHE necefllty of keeping meadow in a good 

 degree of culture mufl appear exceedingly 

 obvious to farmers of every defcription, but more 

 particularly fo to all owners and occupiers of Dairy 

 farmsy with which the flat part of Somerfet I have 

 been treating of more efpecially abounds. One- 

 third part of thefe farms muft be mowed every year, 

 in order to fupply the cows with winter fodder; 

 this conftant mowing cannot but have a tendency 



to 



