THE 



FARMER^S MAGAZINE s 



. MONDAY, 14. JULY 1800. 



(No. III.) 



PART I. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



FOR THE farmer's MAGAZINE. 



The Rural Inquirer y No, 2. 



Certainly we are all afraid left our plenty fhould be our ruin, or elfe men that 

 (tudy fo much to get eftates at fecond hand from one another, would rather 

 drive to get them at firft hand out of the earth. 



Blyfhi's Improver Imfrotied. 



A NOBLE Englifti Peer, at a late public meeting, (as we 

 are informed by a refpe£lable correfpondcnt), hardily 

 declared, that the modern agricultural improvements, inftead 

 of being beneficial, had proved injurious to the public wel- 

 fare, ' What, ' faid his Lorddiip, ' have not rents rifen 

 fmce wafte lands were generally cultivated ? Have not pro- 

 vifions of all kinds increafed in price ? and has not flock, /. e. 

 cattle and flieep, equally advanced ? ' The company filently 

 heard his Lordfliip, and thereby tacitly acknowledged the 

 jaftice of his obfervations. 



"We have often obferved, with furprlfe, the averfion of the 

 generality of landed proprietors to the divifion and jnclofure 

 of wafte lands, without being able to trace it to any well 

 founded caufe. Perhaps fentiments fimilar to thofe avowed 

 by this noble Peer, may have influenced their condu6l, and 

 contributed to fix fuch immenfe tracts of the national terri- 

 tory in their prefent unproductive ftate. This, in h(X, i» 

 , voi<. I. NO. Ill' A a ths 



