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the grazier, and ten tirT>c$ as m^ny as the dairy- 

 man, on a farm of equal value ; furnifhes propor- 

 tionably more of the neceiTaries of life ; and oftea 

 lays out fronn 5 to 81. per acre in ploughing, liming, 

 and feeding an acre of wheat; and as foon as he has 

 cut it the redor* comes ^xid Jweeps away one- tenth 

 of his crop, when the remainder is much too little 

 to repay him his expences. Is there any equity, qt 

 fhadow of juftice in this? Why fhould this laborious 

 induftrious man pay five times, and in fome cafes 

 ten times as much as his neighbour, for having a 

 fermon preached to him once a week, by an im- 

 moral curate, who is often hired by the abfent 

 redtor for one-eighth or one-tenth of the value of 

 the living ? And what is ftill more mortifying to 

 the farmer, and derogatory from the original in- 

 tention is, that ecclefiaftical corporations and lay 

 impropriators live in luxury, vice, and folly, on the 

 labour and induftry of the poor arable farmer. 



To encourage the plough would be a much more 

 effectual way to reduce the price of corn, and en- 

 rich the country, than to reftrain exportation, and 

 pay a bounty for importing what could be abun- 



• This Is conFeffedly a ferious difcouragement to agricultural im» 

 proyements, and calls aloud for a reformation. The reftor, in fuch 

 qafcs, IS not to be blamed j he has the law on his fide, and the farmer 

 cannot expe<^ bim tP forego his Jegal right. 



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