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fterlllty. There is no part of the earth but what may be ad- 

 apted to feme ufeful purpofe or other; and, as there is a 

 conflant demand for wooi in the Weft Riding, the proprie- 

 tors are called upon, both by public and private motives, to 

 plant every acre, not capable of being improved by the ordi- 

 nary methods of cultivation." 



The Game laws are noticed, and the privilege of hunting 

 is thus feelingly commented on : 



" It really {hocks the feelingrs of a farmer, to notice the in- 

 juries coinmitted by a parcel of people, mounted on horleback, 

 galloping like madmen after a poor fox, or an innocent hare. 

 We are convinced, that no real gentleman will injure the pro- 

 perty of the farmer, when engajjcd in this diverjion : but, fo it 

 happens, that heavy loffes are often fuftained by thofe over whofe 

 fields the objeft of fport happens to run j fences are tumbled 

 down, the fown wheat fields rode over, the young graffes not 

 fpared j and, in Ihort, every thing mufl make way for thefe fons 

 of Nimrod/' 



Thefe remarks ought to engage the attention of the prefent 

 fupporters of thofe purfuits, more appropriate to a favage 

 and uncultivated flats of mankind. 



Having now carefully reviewed the various parts of this 

 interefling furvey, we give the conclufion of it in our au- 

 thor's own words ; 



•* We fhall now bring this furvey to a conclufion. Inthecourfe 

 of it, we have endeavoured to defcribe the itate of hufbandry in 

 the Weft Riding, as it is aftually carried on and this we have 

 done, not only from a minuteexamination of itsditierent branches, 

 and the information coUedted during the time we remained in the 

 Riding, but aUo for the very liberal communications of feveral 

 intelligent gentlemen and farmers, fince tranfmitted to us. It cer- 

 tainly has given us much pain to be under the necefiity of cenfur- 

 ing feveral prevailing practices, and to fay fo much againft the 

 nature of the connexion which at prefent generally fubfifts be- 

 twixt the proprietors and their tenants. Upon thefe matters, 

 we have ftated our fentiments with freedom, becaufe we are fen- 

 fible of their importance j and have uniformly afted upon this 

 maxim, that " thofe who are afraid of the public, are not the 

 men by whom the public is to be ferved." 



" With regard to the intereft of that ufeful body of men 

 the farmers, we have endeavoured to (how how much their ficu- 

 ation-would be meliorated, and the practice of agriculture im- 

 proved, by the proprietors granting leafes of a proper duration, 



free 



