l804« Anfiucv-to ^{ery on Pt'opnety of tnclofifig Ccr?i Lafid. /^6^ 



If this opinion be well-founded, of courfc, the firil cofl of 

 making fubdivifion fences, together with their couilant repairs, 

 and the lofs of land they occafion, will be fo much gained to the 

 proprietor of the eitate. 



In Flanders, where the land produces more for the fupport of 

 both man and bead, than any part of Europe I am acquainted 

 with, the enclofures indeed are very fmall, and are furrounded by 

 borders, which are lower than the relt of the field : Thefe bor- 

 ders are planted with poplars, and other quick growing trees, and 

 a ditch is cut along the middle •, but thefe ditches are intended 

 rather as drains, than as fences to confuie cattle. In what is 

 called the field gardening hufoandry, near London, the different 

 crops are divided by narrow paths. This is faid alfo to be the 

 practice in China. 



Whenever the greateft pofTible produce is required from land, 

 it is neceffary that no live llock be fuffered to depafture in the 

 field •, but that the cattle crops be cut and carried to them in fome 

 confined place. If flieep are kept on clover, vetches, or other 

 lummer food, they may be confined by hurdles or nets, as i:> 

 pra£lifed when at turnips. It will be remembered, that this fyf- 

 lem is propofed for land adapted to the grov/th of corn ; and 

 which may, by thefe means, be made to produce more for tlie 

 fupport of live ilock, than if the whole had been in grafs, cxclu- 

 five of the grain which will be fent to market. 



I am fully convinced, that large farms are in general the 

 befb cultivated ; yet if the capital now expended on an extenfive 

 tra6l of land, were employed on a farm of good arable land, of 

 far lefs extent, but cultivated in a garden-like manner, and made 

 to produce alternate corn and cattle crops, the latter to be con- 

 fumed in the moll economical manner, confequently an immenl'e 

 quantity of manure made — if fuch a fyftem as this were purfued, 

 a vafl additional produce would be brought to market, and a 

 greater clear profit would remain to the cultivator of a fmall 

 farm, than is at prefent generally made by the occupier of feveral 

 hundred acres. 



If the foregoing premifes be well-founded, It mufl: follov/ that, 

 on land adapted to the growth of corn, interior fences are unne- 

 ceffary. But, according to the fyllem of agriculture at prefent 

 generally pra6liled in this kingdom, they become unavoidable, as 

 no tenant could be found who would give a fair rent for a fiirm, 

 unlefs it was divided into moderate fized enclofures. To culti- 

 vate a country in the moft garden-like manner, with a view to 

 the fupport of the greatefb population, I believe it will be unne-. 

 ceffary to divide farms into feparate e;"icloiures by interior fence-:. 

 Mdhourti-halli Torkph e. 



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